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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Hayward Carl Spencer.

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HAYWARD CARL SPENCER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 13, 1943 – March 11, 1967

Service record

Hayward Carl Spencer, of Veazie, Maine, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 11, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 65

Position of Panel 16E 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 Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
October 13, 1943
Home of record
Veazie, Maine (Penobscot County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 11, 1967
Age
23
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

57 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1967; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 65

Same unit, same day

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.