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PETER DEHAAS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 27, 1947 – September 7, 1968
Service recordPeter Dehaas, of Asbury, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 7, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · 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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- September 27, 1947
- Home of record
- Asbury, New Jersey (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 7, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date September 7, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 60
- DAVID CARLTON BROWNCaptain · September 7, 1968
- WILLIAM THOMAS CLONEY IIISergeant · September 7, 1968
- WILLIAM MORRIS COOPERSergeant · September 7, 1968
- LLOYD DOUGLAS DOERINGSpecialist Four · September 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES ELLIS FAROPrivate First Class · Panel 45W, Line 61
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.