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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Charles Haines JR.

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JOHN CHARLES HAINES JR

Chief Petty Officer · U.S. Navy

November 25, 1931 – March 7, 1967

Service record

John Charles Haines JR, of Bordentown, New Jersey, served as a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 7, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 35

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. Navy
Rank
Chief Petty Officer (CPO)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Equipment Operator (EO)
Born
November 25, 1931
Home of record
Bordentown, New Jersey (Burlington County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 7, 1967
Age
35
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date March 7, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 35

From Bordentown

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.