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DAVID LOUIS BIDART
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 23, 1949 – March 5, 1968
Service recordDavid Louis Bidart, of Reno, Nevada, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 5, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 3
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 23, 1949
- Home of record
- Reno, Nevada (Washoe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 5, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 5, 1968; ten of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 208 of its members that month.
He died in Phuoc Long 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 43E, Line 3
- STEVE ARTHUR BANNERPrivate First Class · March 5, 1968
- JAMES HENRY BANNING JRLance Corporal · March 5, 1968
- ELDRIDGE JACK BATHCorporal · March 5, 1968
- DON ALLEN BOOZERSergeant · March 5, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GARY RAY BURNETTSergeant · Panel 43E, Line 4
- ALBERT EUGENE COLLINSSergeant · Panel 43E, Line 4
- ROBERT REED CRISWELLSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 4
- JUAN JOSEPH DEMARACorporal · Panel 43E, Line 5
- JAZREAL LEVITE HAYWOODPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 43E, Line 6
- MICHAEL WALTER LANGERCorporal · Panel 43E, Line 8
- FREDRICK ELLIS LARSENSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 8
- ROBERT DAVID MCMILLIANSergeant · Panel 43E, Line 9
- THOMAS WILLIAM PRYORSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 10
- CHARLES SANDERSSergeant · Panel 43E, Line 10
From Reno
- JAMES DELMAS MCANDREWSpecialist Five · January 11, 1963
- JOHN RAY RHODEHAMEL IIPrivate First Class · April 7, 1967
- ARTHUR DAVIES JRMajor · April 27, 1967
- GLEN GEORGE BURTCorporal · May 13, 1967
- MICHAEL DANIEL WESSELCorporal · July 27, 1967
- KERRY EDWARD CLARKPrivate · August 18, 1967
- DONALD R CAMPBELLSpecialist Four · November 7, 1967
- RAYMOND EDWARD STONE JRSecond Lieutenant · December 14, 1967
- MAXIE ROSS RICECorporal · February 1, 1968
- ROBERT NEIL MINETTOCorporal · May 9, 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.