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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frank Mario Bozzello.

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FRANK MARIO BOZZELLO

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

April 21, 1946 – August 14, 1967

Service record

Frank Mario Bozzello, of Seattle, Washington, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 14, 1967, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 108 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24E · Line 108

Position of Panel 24E 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
Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
April 21, 1946
Home of record
Seattle, Washington (King County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 14, 1967
Age
21
Province
Binh Thuan
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date August 14, 1967; three of them were lost in Binh Thuan Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 59 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 24E, Line 108

Same unit, same day

From Seattle

All 238 names from Seattle →

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.