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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gary Lee Haught.

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GARY LEE HAUGHT

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

September 29, 1948 – September 17, 1969

Service record

Gary Lee Haught, of Fairview, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 17, 1969, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18W · Line 102

Position of Panel 18W 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 Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
September 29, 1948
Home of record
Fairview, West Virginia (Marion County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 17, 1969
Age
20
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

42 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1969; 13 of them were lost in Long An Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 18W, Line 102

Same unit, same day

From Fairview

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.