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BRUCE LYLE BADGER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 16, 1946 – April 2, 1968
Service recordBruce Lyle Badger, of Danville, Vermont, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 2, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 40
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- July 16, 1946
- Home of record
- Danville, Vermont (Caledonia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 2, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date April 2, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 40
- FRED CARLTON JENKINSSpecialist Five · April 2, 1968
- JOE THOMAS KEMMERLINGStaff Sergeant · April 2, 1968
- CARL MARION MABELance Corporal · April 2, 1968
- LARRY JOSEPH MILOTLance Corporal · April 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE JOHN KOHLMEIR IIIPrivate First Class · Panel 47E, Line 38
- ROBERT HERMAN RASSELSpecialist Four · Panel 47E, Line 42
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.