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BUDROW BASS JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 20, 1947 – March 1, 1968
Service recordBudrow Bass JR, of Jonesville, Louisiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 1, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 13
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 20, 1947
- Home of record
- Jonesville, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 1, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1968; five of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 188 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 13
- JAMES VICTOR BACKLUNDSpecialist Five · March 1, 1968
- STEPHEN JOSEPH BOBKOVICHStaff Sergeant · March 1, 1968
- LINDEN WAYNE BRITTINGHAMLance Corporal · March 1, 1968
- CHARLES FRANK DEUELPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
Same unit, same day
- BENNIE KSIAZEKPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 18
- JOHN HERBERT WHITE JRSpecialist Four · Panel 42E, Line 26
From Jonesville
- DAVE MAYES JRSpecialist Four · November 13, 1965
- HUBERT AARON ERWINPrivate First Class · December 27, 1966
- JAMES HARDY WHITESergeant · September 12, 1968
- HOWARD LEE EARLYSergeant First Class · February 19, 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.