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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 Maurice John Haas.

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MAURICE JOHN HAAS

Sergeant · U.S. Army

December 3, 1943 – August 30, 1968

Service record

Maurice John Haas, of Cassville, Wisconsin, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 30, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 45W · Line 6

Position of Panel 45W 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
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
December 3, 1943
Home of record
Cassville, Wisconsin (Grant County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 30, 1968
Age
24
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date August 30, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 45W, Line 6

From Cassville

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.