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JAMES LINSDAY BADLEY
First Lieutenant · U.S. Air Force
April 16, 1942 – March 27, 1968
Service recordJames Linsday Badley, of Hermiston, Oregon, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on March 27, 1968, in North Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 43
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. Air Force
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 366 CSG DANANG AB RVN 480 TFG
- Born
- April 16, 1942
- Home of record
- Hermiston, Oregon (Umatilla County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 27, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1968. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 46E, Line 43
- JOHNNY WAYNE WANAMAKERCorporal · March 26, 1968
- HERBERT FRANKLIN WHITELance Corporal · March 26, 1968
- SYLVESTER WRIGHT JRPrivate First Class · March 26, 1968
- HARVEY GENE ADAIRPrivate First Class · March 27, 1968
From Hermiston
- GREG LOW GESSELSpecialist Four · September 14, 1967
- RICHARD THOMAS MILLERLance Corporal · May 12, 1969
- JOHN ALAN WAREStaff Sergeant · November 4, 1969
- GORDON KEITH SPEARMAN JRStaff Sergeant · March 10, 1971
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.