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CALVIN FRANKLIN BUTTERFIELD
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 18, 1949 – May 31, 1968
Service recordCalvin Franklin Butterfield, of Pekin, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 31, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 62W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62W · Line 6
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- E CO 1 RECON BN 1 MARDIV
- Born
- July 18, 1949
- Home of record
- Pekin, Illinois (Tazewell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 31, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
79 names on the Wall carry the date May 31, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “E CO 1 RECON BN 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 62W, Line 6
- PHILLIP LLOYD BROCKMANPrivate First Class · May 31, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT BYERS JRLance Corporal · May 31, 1968
- LAWRENCE HOWARD CARSONCorporal · May 31, 1968
- GEORGE GILBERT CASON JRCorporal · May 31, 1968
From Pekin
- ALDO ROSSI JRPrivate First Class · January 26, 1966
- JERRY W BELLSergeant · May 18, 1966
- JOHN W CLAYTONCaptain · November 20, 1966
- EVERETT LEROY TABORSpecialist Five · January 3, 1967
- LARRY GENE ASBRIDGECorporal · August 12, 1967
- RAMON ARTHUR MEEKERLance Corporal · February 9, 1968
- JOHN SPURLOCKSpecialist Four · February 23, 1968
- BILLY EUGENE MYERSSergeant · May 7, 1968
- ALONZO LENORD DIXONPrivate First Class · May 22, 1968
- TERRY LEE BLOOMERCorporal · September 3, 1968
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.