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FRANKLIN DELANO AUDILET
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
August 24, 1936 – April 1, 1968
Service recordFranklin Delano Audilet, of Yorktown, Texas, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on April 1, 1968, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 29
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
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 24, 1936
- Home of record
- Yorktown, Texas (De Witt County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 1, 1968
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date April 1, 1968; two of them were lost in Phu Yen Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 47E, Line 29
- JOHN FOREMAN PEEKPetty Officer Third Class · March 31, 1968
- KENNETH RICHARD YANTISCorporal · March 31, 1968
- JOHN HILTON BLALOCKCaptain · April 1, 1968
- EDWARD ALLEN BOARDMANCaptain · April 1, 1968
From Yorktown
- FERNANDO AMYO HINOJOSAPrivate First Class · May 2, 1966
- WALLACE STANLEY DWORACZYKSpecialist Four · May 22, 1967
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.