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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ronald John Haupt.

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RONALD JOHN HAUPT

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 26, 1943 – July 7, 1969

Service record

Ronald John Haupt, of Marshfield, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 7, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 75

Position of Panel 21W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Materiel Control And Accounting Specialist (76P)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
November 26, 1943
Home of record
Marshfield, Wisconsin (Marathon County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 7, 1969
Age
25
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date July 7, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 75

From Marshfield

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.