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HAROLD UTAH HAYES
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
July 18, 1939 – July 30, 1970
Service recordHarold Utah Hayes, of Neelyville, Missouri, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 30, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 8W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8W · Line 69
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 18, 1939
- Home of record
- Neelyville, Missouri (Butler County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 30, 1970
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date July 30, 1970; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In July 1970, 495 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 8W, Line 69
- JEROLD FRANKLINPrivate First Class · July 30, 1970
- EDISON AMOS HARKINS IIICorporal · July 30, 1970
- FORREST HUGHY HOLLIFIELDFirst Lieutenant · July 30, 1970
- ROBERT MASEDAPrivate First Class · July 30, 1970
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.