The Wall › Panel 24W › Hawaii › Anthony Bongo
ANTHONY BONGO
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 25, 1947 – May 20, 1969
Service recordAnthony Bongo, of Honolulu, Hawaii, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 20, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 59
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Honolulu, Hawaii (Honolulu County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 20, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1969; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 178 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Hamburger Hill was under way. On Đồng Ấp Bia (Hill 937) in the A Shau Valley (10–20 May 1969), the 101st Airborne Division attacked entrenched North Vietnamese troops for ten days; the soldiers called it “Hamburger Hill.” The heavy losses fed the debate at home over the war’s tactics. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 24W, Line 59
- ARTHUR KIRKS FORBESLance Corporal · May 20, 1969
- RAEFORD JAMES GERALD JRPrivate First Class · May 20, 1969
- ROY WAYNE GRAHAMPrivate First Class · May 20, 1969
- BENJAMIN WAYNE HAIREWarrant Officer 1 · May 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD ALLEN BROOKSPrivate First Class · Panel 24W, Line 58
- JOE THOMAS CONKLEFirst Lieutenant · Panel 24W, Line 58
- WILLIAM LINCOLN MARCYSergeant · Panel 24W, Line 60
From Honolulu
- JAMES GABRIEL JRSpecialist Five · April 8, 1962
- JAMES HIROSHI ISHIHARAChief Warrant Officer 3 · March 10, 1963
- ALAN YUKIO MATSUURAPrivate First Class · April 12, 1964
- JOSEPH N HAOSergeant First Class · November 14, 1964
- ALBERT KALAHANA KUEWAAirman · September 18, 1964
- FLORENDO B PASCUALSergeant First Class · November 3, 1965
- ROBERT HENRY WHITECorporal · December 3, 1965
- ROY SHIGERU KOBAYASHICaptain · January 23, 1966
- SAMUEL POOKEAOKAL GIFFARDStaff Sergeant · January 25, 1966
- GEORGE GRANT KING WEBB JRLance Corporal · February 10, 1966
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.