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BUDDY EUGENE HENDERLIGHT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 20, 1948 – October 21, 1969
Service recordBuddy Eugene Henderlight, of Crystal Lake, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 21, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 102
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
- Materiel Control And Accounting Specialist (76P)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- May 20, 1948
- Home of record
- Crystal Lake, Illinois (Mchenry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 21, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date October 21, 1969; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 102
- ROBERT KENNEDY JRSergeant · October 21, 1969
- TIMOTHY ELTON LARMONPrivate First Class · October 21, 1969
- KEITH DALE MEHAFFEYPrivate First Class · October 21, 1969
- MARK JOSEPH PREISPrivate First Class · October 21, 1969
From Crystal Lake
- SAMUEL P CHAMBERS IIICaptain · June 29, 1965
- TERRY JOE KENNEYSpecialist Four · April 26, 1968
- JAMES DAVID HACEKCorporal · September 26, 1968
- JAMES WILLIAM AMBROSE IIIPrivate First Class · January 31, 1969
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.