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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Guillermo Bautis Pagaduan.

The Wall › Panel 34E › Guillermo Bautis Pagaduan

GUILLERMO BAUTIS PAGADUAN

Seaman · U.S. Navy

February 10, 1940 – January 20, 1968

Service record

Guillermo Bautis Pagaduan served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 20, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 90 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 34E · Line 90

Position of Panel 34E 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. Navy
Rank
Seaman (SN)
Service
Regular
Born
February 10, 1940

Casualty

Date of death
January 20, 1968
Age
27
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

Context · from the records

What was happening

57 names on the Wall carry the date January 20, 1968; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 34E, Line 90

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.