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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 Sayward Newton Hall JR.

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SAYWARD NEWTON HALL JR

Major · U.S. Army

December 26, 1928 – April 21, 1965

Service record

Sayward Newton Hall JR, of Thomaston, Maine, served as a Major in the U.S. Army. He died on April 21, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 106

Position of Panel 1E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Major (MAJ)
Service
Regular
Born
December 26, 1928
Home of record
Thomaston, Maine (Knox County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 21, 1965
Age
36
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date April 21, 1965. In April 1965, 61 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 106

From Thomaston

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.