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HOWARD WAYNE BANDELIER
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
June 6, 1946 – April 17, 1968
Service recordHoward Wayne Bandelier, of New Haven, Indiana, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 17, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 25
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 Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- June 6, 1946
- Home of record
- New Haven, Indiana (Allen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 17, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date April 17, 1968; 22 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 25
- JAMES EDWARD YOUNGSpecialist Four · April 16, 1968
- WARD LEROY ANTHONYCorporal · April 17, 1968
- GARY MICHAEL ARCHIBALDPrivate First Class · April 17, 1968
- VERNON WALTER BURGESONStaff Sergeant · April 17, 1968
From New Haven
- JOHN JAMES GLASPERSecond Lieutenant · July 18, 1965
- DANIEL MAURICE DENNISSpecialist Four · July 12, 1969
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.