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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stephen Harold Haight.

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STEPHEN HAROLD HAIGHT

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 22, 1949 – May 9, 1970

Service record

Stephen Harold Haight, of Cazenovia, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 9, 1970, in Vinh Binh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10W · Line 5

Position of Panel 10W 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
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
May 22, 1949
Home of record
Cazenovia, New York (Madison County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 9, 1970
Age
20
Province
Vinh Binh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date May 9, 1970; three of them were lost in Vinh Binh Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 62 of its members that month.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 10W, Line 5

Same unit, same day

From Cazenovia

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.