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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles A Bazzinotti.

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CHARLES A BAZZINOTTI

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

March 13, 1947 – May 13, 1970

Service record

Charles A Bazzinotti, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 13, 1970, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10W · Line 31

Position of Panel 10W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
March 13, 1947
Home of record
Dorchester, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 13, 1970
Age
23
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1970; four of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10W, Line 31

Same unit, same day

From Dorchester

All 40 names from Dorchester →

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.