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HAROLD WARREN BUTTZ
Private · U.S. Marine Corps
September 12, 1948 – October 15, 1968
Service recordHarold Warren Buttz, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, served as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 15, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 64
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private (PVT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- September 12, 1948
- Home of record
- Council Bluffs, Iowa (Pottawattamie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 15, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date October 15, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 64
- JULIUS CLYDE FAIRCLOTHSergeant · October 15, 1968
- EARNEST LON LOWESergeant First Class · October 15, 1968
- NEIL JAY MORRISPrivate First Class · October 15, 1968
- STEPHEN GRIFFITH MONTAGUECorporal · October 16, 1968
From Council Bluffs
- MELVIN JOSEPH KILLIANColonel · September 30, 1965
- PHILLIP HARRY GREGOPrivate First Class · August 23, 1966
- LEONARD LLOYD MCQUINN JRPrivate First Class · September 5, 1966
- PAUL FRANK WIDTFELDT JRSpecialist Four · October 8, 1966
- DENNIS RAY JENSENPrivate First Class · March 5, 1967
- RAYMOND HENRY KNIGHTSpecialist Five · March 25, 1967
- CLIFFORD DALE NELSONMajor · July 25, 1967
- LOUIS NEWTON COOLEY JRLance Corporal · December 16, 1967
- WILLIAM ALLEN IVESPrivate First Class · March 24, 1968
- KENNETH CARL BAXTERLance Corporal · May 1, 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.