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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Isidro Sigfredo Bazan.

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ISIDRO SIGFREDO BAZAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 15, 1947 – July 5, 1968

Service record

Isidro Sigfredo Bazan, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 5, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 53W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 53W · Line 16

Position of Panel 53W 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Carpentry And Masonry Specialist (51B)
Unit (as recorded)
HHC 19 ENG BN USARV
Born
May 15, 1947
Home of record
Albuquerque, New Mexico (Bernalillo County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 5, 1968
Age
21
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

53 names on the Wall carry the date July 5, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “HHC 19 ENG BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 53W, Line 16

From Albuquerque

All 111 names from Albuquerque →

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.