Rank: Sergeant First Class
Unit: 398th Transportation Detachment, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 67W – Aircraft Quality Control Supervisor
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: AH-1G, Tail # 67-15596, Crew Member
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 28-Nov-1934
Hometown: Vincennes, Indiana
Marital status: Married to Esther M. Hamilton, one son, two daughters
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 27-Mar-1966
Start of tour: 8-Jan-1968
Incident date: 21-Aug-1968
Date of casualty: 21-Aug-1968
Age at death: 33
Cause of death: Non-Hostile – Died While Missing. Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC). Aircraft loss, crash not at sea.
Dick Dale Hamilton died from injuries received while technical inspector on military aircraft departing Vung Tau when aircraft crashed for unknown reasons. (Individual transported to 7th Surgical Hospital, Blackhorse base camp, Long Giao, where he expired.)
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
WO Douglas Woodrow Collins
SFC Dick Dale Hamilton
Location of fatality: Phuoc Tuy, South Vietnam, YS 675 735
Place of interment: Memorial Park Cemetery, Vincennes, Indiana, USA
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