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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Henry Nicholas Heide II.

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HENRY NICHOLAS HEIDE II

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 23, 1948 – November 29, 1969

Service record

Henry Nicholas Heide II, of West Palm Beach, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 29, 1969, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15W · Line 4

Position of Panel 15W 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
Ew/Sigint Morse Interceptor (05H)
Born
December 23, 1948
Home of record
West Palm Beach, Florida (Palm Beach County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 29, 1969
Age
20
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1969; seven of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 15W, Line 4

From West Palm Beach

All 27 names from West Palm Beach →

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.