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CONRADO FRANCISCO BILDUCIA
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 18, 1947 – March 4, 1968
Service recordConrado Francisco Bilducia, of Winkelman, Arizona, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 4, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 62
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- O-1/U-6 Airplane Repairman (67B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- January 18, 1947
- Home of record
- Winkelman, Arizona (Gila County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 4, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
75 names on the Wall carry the date March 4, 1968; eight of them were lost in Darlac Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.
He died in Darlac 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 62
- RICHARD LEE CLAVERIESpecialist Four · March 4, 1968
- JAMES CROCKRANPrivate · March 4, 1968
- DOUGLAS D CROWECaptain · March 4, 1968
- JAMES RICHARD DAVIDSONSergeant · March 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- VERNON LEE LEUNINGWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 42E, Line 68
- JOHN WARNER STEVENS JRSpecialist Five · Panel 42E, Line 72
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.