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JOHN ANTHONY BAFILE
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 10, 1945 – February 20, 1968
Service recordJohn Anthony Bafile, of Sepulveda, California, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1968, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 36
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Pneudraulics Repairer (68H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- August 10, 1945
- Home of record
- Sepulveda, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1968; eight of them were lost in Phu Yen Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 36
- JOHN FRANK BARANOSKIPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- RONNIE O BIGELOWSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
- DANIEL ROGER BODINCorporal · February 20, 1968
- DAVID RUSSELL BOSWORTHSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONNIE O BIGELOWSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 36
- MICHAEL JOSEPH MCGINNISMajor · Panel 40E, Line 45
From Sepulveda
- RICHARD L HATLESTADFirst Lieutenant · April 12, 1963
- JOHN ANDREW EWARTLance Corporal · March 23, 1967
- ROBERT THOMPSON JRPrivate First Class · April 8, 1967
- JAMES ALFRED MCMURDOLance Corporal · June 6, 1967
- FRANK JOSEPH COSTANTINI JRPrivate First Class · June 21, 1967
- WILLIAM THOMAS PERKINS JRCorporal · October 12, 1967
- MICHAEL WILLIAM HOLZMANPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- MICHAEL GALE HUTSONLance Corporal · August 28, 1968
- TIMOTHY MICHAEL HARRINGTONSpecialist Four · February 5, 1969
- BENJAMIN BUGARINCaptain · April 27, 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.