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HARVEY NEWTON SLAUGHTER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 4, 1942 – June 14, 1969
Service recordHarvey Newton Slaughter, of Portsmouth, Virginia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 14, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 49
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)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- December 4, 1942
- Home of record
- Portsmouth, Virginia (Portsmouth (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 14, 1969
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date June 14, 1969; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 49
- KIM RAUPACHPrivate First Class · June 14, 1969
- JAMES EVERETT SAWYER JRCorporal · June 14, 1969
- DAVID THOMAS SITTONSergeant · June 14, 1969
- ROBERT MICHAEL SNELLCaptain · June 14, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JEFF HAROLD UPPSpecialist Four · Panel 22W, Line 51
From Portsmouth
- NORMAN ELLIOTT JRSpecialist Four · February 20, 1965
- RICHARD DALE BRODAPrivate First Class · November 20, 1965
- JESSE THOMAS BAILEY JRSergeant · February 2, 1966
- THOMAS HENRY RHODESPrivate First Class · February 12, 1966
- DONALD CHANDLER PIPERPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
- MILTON LEE VAUGHANPrivate First Class · August 27, 1966
- WALTER WILLIAMS JRSergeant · September 25, 1966
- MELVIN LEON SHERRELLSpecialist Four · December 13, 1966
- FRANK EARLE HARDYLance Corporal · May 29, 1967
- FRED ALLAN KELLEYSpecialist Four · July 10, 1967
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.