PATRICK L HALEY
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HONORED ON PANEL 18E, LINE 45 OF THE WALL

PATRICK LAWRENCE HALEY

WALL NAME

PATRICK L HALEY

PANEL / LINE

18E/45

DATE OF BIRTH

01/02/1942

CASUALTY PROVINCE

BINH DINH

DATE OF CASUALTY

04/18/1967

HOME OF RECORD

LA SALLE

COUNTY OF RECORD

LaSalle County

STATE

IL

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

CAPT

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR PATRICK LAWRENCE HALEY
POSTED ON 2.16.2025
POSTED BY: RICHARD FUERHOLZER

HIGH SCHOOL DAYS AT ST. BEDE 1959

PAT WAS THE GREATEST, WE HAD LOTS OF GOOD TIMES IN HIS OLD 1946 FORD SEDAN WITH HIM, BOB LEVAN, BILL KRAUSE AND MYSELF, DON'T FOR GET THE GIRLS JEANNIE REESE, AND MARY BEBE ZIEL, THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE IT WAS AN HONOR TO SERVICE IN THE ARMY WITH YOU....RIP OLD RED HEAD BUDDY...LOV'N AND LUCK RICHARD "FUZZY" FUERHOLZER
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POSTED ON 1.2.2025
POSTED BY: Jury Washington

Thank you for your valiant service soldier.

May those who served never be forgotten. Rest in peace CAPT. Haley, I salute your brave soul. My heart goes out to you and your family.
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POSTED ON 11.2.2022
POSTED BY: John Fabris

honoring you...

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. Your Distinguished Service Cross citation attests to your courage and devotion to your fellow soldiers. As long as you are remembered you will always be with us….
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POSTED ON 2.25.2020
POSTED BY: David Hafermann, M.D.

Classmate in Medical School

Pat and I were classmates, medical fraternity brothers and he was my lab partner in anatomy, biochemistry and physiology labs (1963-64). We drank beer and listened to Bob Dylan records together. For that year we were close but medical school was not for Pat. I received a few letters from him when he was in helicopter training. We learned of his death on the day of his funeral. His laugh and occasional devil-may-care demeanor remain in my memory. He will be forever young.
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POSTED ON 4.21.2019

Final Mission of CPT Patrick L. Haley

On April 18, 1967, a U.S. Army helicopter UH-1C (tail number 66-15048) from A Troop, 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, was conducting a reconnaissance by fire near An Loc in Binh Dinh Province, RVN, when the helicopter was hit by enemy ground fire and crashed with the loss of all aboard. Reportedly, the helicopter was in a flight of several aircraft and the door gunner, SP4 Vernice Hollingsworth, was using his M60 machine gun’s tracers to show the location of enemy anti-aircraft placements. The flight was in close formation, side by side, when a single round was observed to come up and hit Hollingsworth’s helicopter in the nose area. A radio transmission suddenly came over the intercom reporting a fire as flames were observed raging within the aircraft’s cabin area. The stricken helicopter rolled a couple of times, then rocked back and forth before nosing into the jungle below. The flight circled over the crash site, but no survivors were sighted. The lost crew included pilots MAJ Thomas D. Mendenhall and CPT Patrick L. Haley, crew chief SP4 Ronald D. Bruce, and gunner Hollingsworth. Also lost was 1LT Robert J. Crabbe, a 1st Cavalry Division artillery officer. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org, vhpa.org, and information provided by Craig Matlock in the book “Headhunters: Stories from the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, in Vietnam 1965-1971” by Matthew Brennan]
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