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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jerry Wayne Hauf.

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JERRY WAYNE HAUF

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 30, 1946 – October 20, 1966

Service record

Jerry Wayne Hauf, of New Carlisle, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 20, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 92

Position of Panel 11E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
May 30, 1946
Home of record
New Carlisle, Ohio (Clark County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 20, 1966
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date October 20, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 53 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 92

From New Carlisle

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.