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NILON KAY BACON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 16, 1945 – May 26, 1968
Service recordNilon Kay Bacon, of Fall Branch, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 26, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 66W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 66W · Line 1
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- June 16, 1945
- Home of record
- Fall Branch, Tennessee (Washington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 26, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1968; four of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 99 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 66W, Line 1
- EDWARD EARL BEACHAMPrivate First Class · May 26, 1968
- GARY EDWARD BECKERSpecialist Four · May 26, 1968
- KEVEN WAYNE BOWDISHPrivate First Class · May 26, 1968
- ALTON BOYCESergeant · May 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- STERLING HAROLD HILLStaff Sergeant · Panel 66W, Line 7
- CLYDE STEVEN HIMESSergeant · Panel 66W, Line 7
- ROSALIO VALENCIASergeant · Panel 65W, Line 2
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.