JAMES MICHAEL HAIDER

Battery B 4/42 Artillery

4th Infantry Division

KIA 07/12/1967

Age: 21
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth May 9, 1946
From: ST PAUL, MN
Religion: ROMAN CATHOLIC
Marital Status: Married

SGT - E5 - Army - Selective Service
4th Infantry Division
Grade at loss: E4
Rank: Sergeant
Note: Posthumous Promotion as indicated
MOS: 13A20: Field Artillery Basic
Length of service 1 years
His tour began on Dec 20, 1966
Casualty was on Jul 12, 1967
In PLEIKU, SOUTH VIETNAM
Hostile, died while missing, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered

Panel 23E - Line 59

James Haider was killed in action while on Operation Francis Marion, with B 1/12 Infantry, in an engagement
with hostile forces, at grid reference YA850131, in the Ia Pnon River Valley, approximately
12 kilometers south of Duc Co airfield.

SGT James M. Haider's decorations

Burial:
Fort Snelling National Cemetery
Minneapolis
Hennepin County
Minnesota, USA
Plot: Section O, Site 1592

Grave marker for James M. Haider

Photo by: Steve Edquist ~In Memory Of Aaron & Scrappy~

from the Find A Grave website

Top photo courtesy of James' sister Daphne

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