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RAYMOND ERVIN BAUMGARNER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 18, 1944 – March 14, 1969
Service recordRaymond Ervin Baumgarner, of Kannapolis, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 14, 1969, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 35
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- February 18, 1944
- Home of record
- Kannapolis, North Carolina (Cabarrus County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 14, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date March 14, 1969; two of them were lost in Phuoc Tuy Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 29W, Line 35
- EDWARD RUSSELL BEASLEYSergeant · March 14, 1969
- THEOPHILUS BOWLESSpecialist Four · March 14, 1969
- SAMUEL HOPE JRPrivate First Class · March 14, 1969
- LEON EDWARD BARNARDPrivate First Class · May 31, 1969
Same unit, same day
- HADLEY FOSTERMajor · Panel 29W, Line 36
From Kannapolis
- JOHN CORNELIUS DUNLAPLance Corporal · April 9, 1967
- JIMMY RICHARD COXLance Corporal · May 14, 1968
- JOHN TERRY MCINNISPrivate First Class · September 14, 1968
- JAMES DELANO ROBINSONPrivate First Class · December 2, 1968
- HAROLD REED RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · February 4, 1969
- LARRY WAYNE WATKINSSpecialist Four · May 9, 1969
- ROBERT LEE HAGER JRCorporal · September 22, 1969
- DONALD MONROE SHUESergeant First Class · November 3, 1969
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.