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JOE LESLIE BIFFLE JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 9, 1948 – January 21, 1968
Service recordJoe Leslie Biffle JR, of Gainesville, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 21, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 3
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Light Vehicle Driver (64A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- October 9, 1948
- Home of record
- Gainesville, Texas (Cooke County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 21, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date January 21, 1968; three of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 34 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 35E, Line 3
- LAWRENCE EDWARD BISONETTPrivate First Class · January 21, 1968
- THEODORE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · January 21, 1968
- CURTIS BURKE BUGGERPrivate First Class · January 21, 1968
- ECHOL W COALSTON JRStaff Sergeant · January 21, 1968
From Gainesville
- JERRY LYNE STEEDSpecialist Four · June 24, 1967
- THOMAS NEAL BREWERLance Corporal · January 7, 1968
- DONALD JOE BOAZPrivate First Class · April 12, 1968
- WILLIE OVERSTREET JRSpecialist Five · June 11, 1968
- JERRY DON GIBBSPrivate First Class · December 30, 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.