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RAY IRA HAAS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 28, 1947 – March 28, 1968
Service recordRay Ira Haas, of Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 28, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 55
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)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- October 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Pennsburg, Pennsylvania (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 28, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 104 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 46E, Line 55
- JAMES A HARRINGTON JRSergeant · March 28, 1968
- RICHARD ALFRED HEWETTCorporal · March 28, 1968
- CHARLES GREGORY HUSTONStaff Sergeant · March 28, 1968
- GREGORY PATRICK KENTLance Corporal · March 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GERALD FREDERICK GILBERTSergeant · Panel 46E, Line 54
- RAYMOND RICHARD GILLOCKSpecialist Five · Panel 46E, Line 54
- CHRISTOPHER A GROSSE JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 46E, Line 54
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.