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An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam.
An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Wolfgang Albrecht Haegele.

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WOLFGANG ALBRECHT HAEGELE

Airman First Class · U.S. Air Force

May 23, 1939 – May 15, 1967

Service record

Wolfgang Albrecht Haegele, of Cambridge, Nebraska, served as an Airman First Class in the U.S. Air Force. He died on May 15, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 128 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19E · Line 128

Position of Panel 19E 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. Air Force
Rank
Airman First Class (A1C)
Service
Regular
Born
May 23, 1939
Home of record
Cambridge, Nebraska (Furnas County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 15, 1967
Age
27
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1967; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 19E, Line 128

From Cambridge

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.