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WILLIAM EDWARD BADER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
November 13, 1946 – June 24, 1968
Service recordWilliam Edward Bader, of Suttons Bay, Michigan, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 24, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 25
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 Quality Control Supervisor (67W)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- November 13, 1946
- Home of record
- Suttons Bay, Michigan (Leelanau County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 24, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date June 24, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 25
- GARY WILKINSONCorporal · June 23, 1968
- THOMAS LOWELL WINESCorporal · June 23, 1968
- TERRY NOBLE BARTLINGSpecialist Four · June 24, 1968
- DANIEL RALPH BROPHYSpecialist Four · June 24, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LEROY JACK BROWNINGSergeant Major · Panel 55W, Line 26
- ANDREW ALPHONSO LANGCorporal · Panel 55W, Line 29
- RICHARD SHARON POHLColonel · Panel 55W, Line 30
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.