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DANIEL ROGER BODIN
Corporal · U.S. Army
June 6, 1948 – February 20, 1968
Service recordDaniel Roger Bodin, of Waverly, Minnesota, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1968, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 36
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 6, 1948
- Home of record
- Waverly, Minnesota (Wright County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1968; three of them were lost in Binh Thuan Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 of its members that month.
He died in Binh Thuan 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 40E, Line 36
- JOHN ANTHONY BAFILESpecialist Five · February 20, 1968
- JOHN FRANK BARANOSKIPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- RONNIE O BIGELOWSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
- DAVID RUSSELL BOSWORTHSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ALEXANDER FEDOROFFStaff Sergeant · Panel 40E, Line 38
- VINCENT BERTRAM PARKHURSTSergeant First Class · Panel 40E, Line 46
- ALBERT CLARENCE WOODS JRSergeant · Panel 40E, Line 49
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.