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RUDY LEE BALDON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 16, 1946 – November 10, 1969
Service recordRudy Lee Baldon, of Hood River, Oregon, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 10, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16W · Line 51
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 16, 1946
- Home of record
- Hood River, Oregon (Hood River County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 10, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date November 10, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16W, Line 51
- JAMES JOHN STROBLECorporal · November 9, 1969
- JIMMY WAYNE WILLEFORDFirst Lieutenant · November 9, 1969
- RICHARD LOUIS BARIGLIOSergeant First Class · November 10, 1969
- STEPHEN ERNEST BAYLESLance Corporal · November 10, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT JOHN FULLERSpecialist Four · Panel 16W, Line 52
From Hood River
- KEITH CHARLES PERKINSPrivate First Class · August 2, 1967
- ARCHIE CARL WABSCHALL IIIPetty Officer Third Class · February 26, 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.