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ARTHUR EDWARD BADER JR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 12, 1934 – July 29, 1968
Service recordArthur Edward Bader JR, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He was lost on July 29, 1968, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 9
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 12, 1934
- Home of record
- Atlantic City, New Jersey (Atlantic County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- July 29, 1968
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
- First reported
- Missing in action
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date July 29, 1968. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 37W, Line 9
- HENRY LEWIS ROGERSPrivate First Class · November 29, 1968
- JOHN RAY WILLIAMSSergeant · November 29, 1968
- GEORGE BERKLEY ALGERSpecialist Five · November 30, 1968
- RICHARD DICK AMBRUSOSpecialist Four · November 30, 1968
From Atlantic City
- ARFIEN CLIFFORD ALISpecialist Four · February 20, 1966
- ARTHUR KEENSeaman · June 27, 1966
- DENNIS FRANCIS DELASANDROSpecialist Four · December 28, 1966
- GEORGE EUGENE COLES JRPrivate First Class · February 23, 1967
- GEORGE LEONARD MILANPrivate · August 25, 1967
- THOMAS F SMITH JRSpecialist Four · March 3, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH GROHMANGunnery Sergeant · March 22, 1968
- MICHAEL LEE FARMERPrivate First Class · April 4, 1968
- JAMES WILLIE TERRYPrivate First Class · April 26, 1968
- ROBERT PATRICK SHELLEMLance Corporal · April 28, 1968
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.