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HARVEY LEE BASCO
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
August 9, 1942 – March 15, 1969
Service recordHarvey Lee Basco, of Alexandria, Louisiana, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 15, 1969, in Go Cong Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 42
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
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 13 ASLT DIV 13
- Born
- August 9, 1942
- Home of record
- Alexandria, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 15, 1969
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Go Cong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 15, 1969; he was the only one lost in Go Cong Province that day. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 13 ASLT DIV 13”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 42
- ARTURO FRAGOSO ALARCONSergeant · March 15, 1969
- BRUNO BARANPrivate First Class · March 15, 1969
- SIMEON JOSEPH A BERGERONSpecialist Four · March 15, 1969
- MICHAEL EDWIN BRADYPrivate First Class · March 15, 1969
From Alexandria
- MICHAEL JOSEPH TUNNEYFirst Lieutenant · October 6, 1962
- JOSH PALM JRPrivate First Class · October 5, 1966
- ROBERT SMITH SRSergeant · October 21, 1966
- LAWRENCE EUGENE BESSONPrivate First Class · November 4, 1966
- JIMMY DARWIN GOLMONSergeant · December 20, 1966
- LEONARD WAYNE ELIEPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- GILL LESTER CARTERAirman · August 17, 1967
- WILLIAM ALAN GILMORELance Corporal · September 7, 1967
- CHARLES WADDELL ROBERTSSergeant · September 21, 1967
- FLOYD CAMILLE LACHNEYSpecialist Four · January 19, 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.