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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Anthony Joseph Hains JR.

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ANTHONY JOSEPH HAINS JR

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

June 18, 1947 – February 3, 1970

Service record

Anthony Joseph Hains JR, of New Orleans, Louisiana, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 3, 1970, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14W · Line 97

Position of Panel 14W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Assaultman (0351)
Born
June 18, 1947
Home of record
New Orleans, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
February 3, 1970
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date February 3, 1970. In February 1970, 569 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14W, Line 97

From New Orleans

All 164 names from New Orleans →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.