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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles Francis Haynes.

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CHARLES FRANCIS HAYNES

Sergeant · U.S. Army

May 9, 1944 – October 30, 1972

Service record

Charles Francis Haynes, of Chittenango, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 30, 1972, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1W · Line 60

Position of Panel 1W 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. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Born
May 9, 1944
Home of record
Chittenango, New York (Madison County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 30, 1972
Age
28
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

Context · from the records

What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date October 30, 1972. In October 1972, 65 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 1W, Line 60

From Chittenango

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.