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JESSE BOYD HAYES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 30, 1946 – January 9, 1969
Service recordJesse Boyd Hayes, of Grandview, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 9, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 60
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- January 30, 1946
- Home of record
- Grandview, Tennessee (Rhea County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 9, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date January 9, 1969; three of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 43 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 60
- FLOYD IRA GRANGER JRFirst Lieutenant · January 9, 1969
- LARRY GREENPrivate First Class · January 9, 1969
- BRUCE BRADLEY HARTMANSpecialist Four · January 9, 1969
- LYNNFORD HARLOW HIGLEYFirst Lieutenant · January 9, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CRAIG JOHN LOFTUSSpecialist Four · Panel 35W, Line 62
- TODD LOUIS WOODSpecialist Four · Panel 35W, Line 62
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.