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RAYMOND JOHN BAKER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 2, 1941 – March 12, 1971
Service recordRaymond John Baker, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 12, 1971, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 39
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineer Missile Equipment Specialist (62C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- September 2, 1941
- Home of record
- Minneapolis, Minnesota (Hennepin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1971
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1971; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 39
- AERIO JOSEPH LUCCHI JRPrivate First Class · March 11, 1971
- MICHAEL JOHN LUSEPrivate First Class · March 11, 1971
- RONALD ROBERT NORTHROPSpecialist Five · March 11, 1971
- DAVID HUGH SMITHCorporal · March 11, 1971
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH JAMES GOMEZSpecialist Five · Panel 4W, Line 40
- ROBERT WALTER THORNESpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 42
From Minneapolis
- WILLIAM EDWARD SWANSONLieutenant · April 11, 1965
- MICHAEL JOHN ULICSNIPetty Officer First Class · September 8, 1964
- DENNIS LEROY PIERSONPrivate First Class · June 26, 1965
- DON GLENN KNOWLTONWarrant Officer 1 · October 20, 1965
- ROGER MICHAEL MANNIESergeant · October 28, 1965
- TRENT RICHARD POWERSCaptain · October 31, 1965
- DAVID LEONARD UGLANDSecond Lieutenant · November 8, 1965
- WILLIAM MARTIN SAVORENLance Corporal · November 25, 1965
- LAWRENCE FREDRICK RAMAKERSpecialist Four · December 10, 1965
- THOMAS NEWTON SLOANTechnical Sergeant · December 17, 1965
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.