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HARRY STANLEY MASON JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 9, 1948 – November 9, 1970
Service recordHarry Stanley Mason JR, of Danville, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 9, 1970, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 48
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Supplyman (76A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- October 9, 1948
- Home of record
- Danville, Illinois (Vermilion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 9, 1970
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date November 9, 1970; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 48
- FRANCIS WILLIAM HARTERSergeant · November 9, 1970
- LUIS ERNESTO MUNIZ-GARCIACorporal · November 9, 1970
- HARRY THOMAS PETERSENSergeant · November 9, 1970
- JAMES HERSHEL SAXTON JRSpecialist Four · November 9, 1970
Same unit, same day
- RONALD EDWARD GERSTNERSpecialist Five · Panel 6W, Line 47
- JAMES HERSHEL SAXTON JRSpecialist Four · Panel 6W, Line 48
From Danville
- THOMAS EDWARD BROWNLieutenant (junior grade) · April 29, 1966
- WALTER PHILIP JACKSONPetty Officer Third Class · August 10, 1966
- ROBERT FRANCIS ENDERBYLance Corporal · June 7, 1967
- ROBERT CARL SHERMANSergeant · June 24, 1967
- JOHN WILLIAM DAVISPrivate First Class · July 4, 1967
- KENNETH RALPH MCALLISTERPrivate First Class · March 14, 1968
- PERRY DICKEN JRLance Corporal · April 11, 1968
- CECIL LAVON RENDERSpecialist Four · April 18, 1968
- JOHN ALLEN GOLDSBERY IIPrivate First Class · June 3, 1968
- ROBERT DUANE SHIPMANStaff Sergeant · March 6, 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.