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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 Dayle Raymond Hall.

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DAYLE RAYMOND HALL

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 1, 1946 – February 4, 1971

Service record

Dayle Raymond Hall, of Alma, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 4, 1971, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5W · Line 78

Position of Panel 5W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 LOGISTIC CMD
Born
October 1, 1946
Home of record
Alma, Michigan (Gratiot County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 4, 1971
Age
24
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date February 4, 1971; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In February 1971, 387 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 5W, Line 78

From Alma

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.