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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 Delbert Wayne Haase.

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DELBERT WAYNE HAASE

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

August 16, 1948 – October 18, 1967

Service record

Delbert Wayne Haase, of Crawfordsville, Indiana, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 18, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28E · Line 35

Position of Panel 28E 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
Rifleman (0311)
Born
August 16, 1948
Home of record
Crawfordsville, Indiana (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 18, 1967
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

30 names on the Wall carry the date October 18, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 28E, Line 35

From Crawfordsville

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.