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A mother and child are evacuated from Kon Tum to Pleiku during the Easter Offensive, 4 May 1972.
A mother and child are evacuated from Kon Tum to Pleiku during the Easter Offensive, 4 May 1972. Photo: 1LT Stacy Stewart, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Allen Haines JR.

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WILLIAM ALLEN HAINES JR

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

January 23, 1951 – April 28, 1972

Service record

William Allen Haines JR, of Warren, Ohio, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on April 28, 1972, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1W · Line 9

Position of Panel 1W 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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Attack Helicopter Pilot (100E)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
January 23, 1951
Home of record
Warren, Ohio (Trumbull County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 28, 1972
Age
21
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Four names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1972; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1972, 106 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.

He died in Quảng Trị Province while the Easter Offensive was under way. On 30 March 1972, North Vietnam launched its largest offensive since 1968, attacking across the DMZ, toward An Lộc and into the Central Highlands. By then few U.S. ground troops remained; American advisers and air power fought alongside the South Vietnamese.

Also on Panel 1W, Line 9

Same unit, same day

From Warren

All 32 names from Warren →

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.