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PHILLIP DUANE BURFOOT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 28, 1946 – June 7, 1969
Service recordPhillip Duane Burfoot, of Barstow, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 7, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23W · Line 96
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
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D CO 299 ENG BN 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
- Born
- October 28, 1946
- Home of record
- Barstow, California (San Bernardino County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 7, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date June 7, 1969; four of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “D CO 299 ENG BN 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23W, Line 96
- LARRY HANSEN BOWENPrivate First Class · June 7, 1969
- DAVID JOE BREDENKAMPPrivate First Class · June 7, 1969
- DAN BULLOCKPrivate First Class · June 7, 1969
- DONALD WAYNE BUNNPrivate First Class · June 7, 1969
From Barstow
- CLARENCE GRIEGOPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- ROBERT KAY WAGNERPetty Officer First Class · August 15, 1968
- DANIEL EUGENE NELSON JRPrivate First Class · September 21, 1968
- CHARLES RUIZ LEMUS JRPrivate First Class · October 31, 1968
- EUGENE F CHRISTIANSENSergeant First Class · February 6, 1969
- MARTIN JOSEPH CANAVAN JRStaff Sergeant · March 29, 1969
- JACKIE LEE SMITHCorporal · July 15, 1969
- SALVADOR LEAL JRSpecialist Four · July 25, 1970
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.