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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 Glenn Branson Haines JR.

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GLENN BRANSON HAINES JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 1, 1948 – March 6, 1969

Service record

Glenn Branson Haines JR, of Beaumont, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30W · Line 54

Position of Panel 30W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Clerk (70A)
Born
June 1, 1948
Home of record
Beaumont, Texas (Jefferson County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 6, 1969
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

54 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1969. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 30W, Line 54

From Beaumont

All 29 names from Beaumont →

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.