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BASIL LEE HAREFORD
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 5, 1948 – July 3, 1968
Service recordBasil Lee Hareford, of Elkton, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 3, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 42
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.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- February 5, 1948
- Home of record
- Elkton, Virginia (Rockingham County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 3, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date July 3, 1968; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54W, Line 42
- JOHN LEWIS CARTERLance Corporal · July 3, 1968
- KENNETH EDWARD FISCHERSecond Lieutenant · July 3, 1968
- RAYMOND CHARLES GARCIASergeant · July 3, 1968
- JOSEPH HODGESSergeant · July 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- BILLY RAY HOLMESSergeant · Panel 53W, Line 1
- ROY HOWARD MCCLAINPrivate First Class · Panel 53W, Line 4
From Elkton
- CARROLL STEVEN PLUMSpecialist Four · September 25, 1970
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.