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VLADIMIR HENRY BACIK
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Marine Corps
November 18, 1932 – August 27, 1967
Service recordVladimir Henry Bacik, of Houston, Texas, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was lost on August 27, 1967, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 48
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- VMA AW 533 MAG 12 1 MAW
- Born
- November 18, 1932
- Home of record
- Houston, Texas (Harris County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- August 27, 1967
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date August 27, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VMA AW 533 MAG 12 1 MAW”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 25E, Line 48
- DENIS DUANE MATTHEISSpecialist Four · August 26, 1967
- CARY PAUL QUEENSergeant · August 26, 1967
- ROBERT CHARLES SMITHPrivate First Class · August 26, 1967
- DOUGLAS DEWEY WALLINPrivate First Class · August 26, 1967
Same unit, same day
- PASCHAL GLENN BOGGSMajor · Panel 25E, Line 49
From Houston
- JOSEPH MICHAEL FAHEY JRCaptain · February 11, 1962
- JOHN F SHAUGHNESSY JRCaptain · February 3, 1963
- RICHARD DALE HILLAirman Second Class · December 6, 1963
- HUGHIE DARELL ADAMSMajor · January 7, 1964
- ALBERT LAWRENCE SHIMEKPrivate First Class · April 10, 1964
- BYRON CLARK STONECaptain · August 20, 1964
- JAMES EDWARD HAVEMANNWarrant Officer 1 · October 7, 1964
- ROBERT GRAHAM BELLMajor · May 16, 1965
- LEROY ANTHONY BOURGEOISPrivate First Class · June 18, 1965
- ROBERT FILMORE BATSONSergeant · August 18, 1965
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.