Rank: Sergeant
Unit: E Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 4-Jan-1948
Hometown: Versailles, Kentucky
Marital status: Married to Mary H. Harris, one daughter
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 12-Nov-1968
Start of tour: 3-Nov-1969
Incident date: 24-Nov-1969
Date of casualty: 24-Nov-1969
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Joseph Randal Harris was killed while on a combat operation when a supporting mortar round directed at a hostile force landed in the area. / On reconnaissance patrol. Hit by fragments from friendly mortar fire directed at hostile force.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC Roger Lee Byus
SGT Joseph Randal Harris
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XU 830 134
Place of interment: Steele Cemetery, Versailles, Kentucky, USA
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