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BOLEN PONDEXDER MCGEE
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 8, 1947 – April 25, 1968
Service recordBolen Pondexder McGee, of Osceola, Arkansas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 25, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 8
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medium Helicopter Repairer (67U)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 8, 1947
- Home of record
- Osceola, Arkansas (Mississippi County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 25, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 8
- WILBUR FLORENCE MATTOXPrivate First Class · April 25, 1968
- HENRY THURMAN MCCRIMMONSergeant · April 25, 1968
- ALBERT COOK MITCHELLColonel · April 25, 1968
- VICTOR ALLEN MOHRSpecialist Four · April 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JACK BITTINGSpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 2
- LINDEN DALE EILER JRCorporal · Panel 52E, Line 4
- ERVIN JAMES HOYTWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 52E, Line 4
- HUBIA JUDE GUILLORYPrivate First Class · Panel 52E, Line 5
- DANIEL MARTIN KELLEYSpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 6
- JAMES D KENDALLSpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 7
- MICHAEL PATRICK MAKUCKSpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 7
- JERRY DOYNE MCMANUSCorporal · Panel 52E, Line 9
- DAVID LEE SCOTTSpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 11
- KENNETH GLENN SPENCERFirst Lieutenant · Panel 52E, Line 11
From Osceola
- DAVID F TAYLOR IIIFirst Lieutenant · April 1, 1967
- JOEL CROCKETTPrivate First Class · September 22, 1967
- TOMMY JOE DIXONCorporal · March 15, 1969
- CONNIE WAYNE PARRISHSpecialist Four · February 15, 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.