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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Warren George Haugen JR.

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WARREN GEORGE HAUGEN JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 5, 1945 – November 21, 1968

Service record

Warren George Haugen JR, of Charlotte, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 21, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 38W · Line 26

Position of Panel 38W 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
Nuclear, Biological, And Chemical (Nbc) Specialist (54E)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
May 5, 1945
Home of record
Charlotte, North Carolina (Mecklenburg County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 21, 1968
Age
23
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

51 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1968; six of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 38W, Line 26

From Charlotte

All 88 names from Charlotte →

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.