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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jerry Lee Hauschultz.

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JERRY LEE HAUSCHULTZ

Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 11, 1948 – December 5, 1969

Service record

Jerry Lee Hauschultz, of Marion, Wisconsin, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 5, 1969, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15W · Line 27

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
September 11, 1948
Home of record
Marion, Wisconsin (Waupaca County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 5, 1969
Age
21
Province
Lam Dong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date December 5, 1969; two of them were lost in Lam Dong Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15W, Line 27

Same unit, same day

From Marion

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.