Staff Sergeant Frank Neil Badolati

Early Life

Frank Neil Badolati was born on March 19, 1933, to Louis J. and Daisy Badolati in the Bronx, New York. He had one brother, Robert.

Badotali’s mother, Daisy Holmes, immigrated from Rochdale, England, to the U.S. via Canada in 1925. She married Badotali’s father, Louis, on July 19, 1932, and formally applied for naturalization on March 1, 1938.

Both of Badotali’s paternal grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Italy. His grandfather, Frank Sr., was a pharmacist and owned his own business.  Badolati’s father passed away in 1947. 

By 1950, Badolati had enlisted in the military. According to the 1950 census, he was living at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. His mother and brother moved to New Hampshire shortly after. 

Homefront

Industry During the War 

During the Vietnam War, the Bronx became heavily involved with food distribution. In 1962, Mayor Robert Wagner began construction of a new commercial center at a cost of $40 million. Called the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market, this location became one of the largest food packaging facilities in the world. 

The Bronx was also home to the Loral Electronics Corporation, which built wartime electronics for the U.S military. The company, founded in 1948 in New York City, relocated its headquarters to the Bronx in 1959. The company specialized in defense equipment and was always looking for more workers. During the war, the company manufactured components for guidance systems and nuclear reactors. The U.S. Navy awarded the company a $3 million contract to develop more advanced radar detection systems.

The Draft and Protests

During the Vietnam War, over 75,000 men were registered at four draft boards located in the Bronx.

In April 1967, students at the Bronx campus of Hunter College (now Lehman College) conducted a peaceful “sit-in” during a mock United Nations debate. They urged the college dean to stop ranking students for the draft. An estimated 400,000 students and other citizens attended a large-scale protest in Central Park on August 15, 1967. Coordinated protests occurred simultaneously in San Francisco and other cities across the country. 

In 1969, a group of eight men broke into an office that housed one of the draft boards and tore apart draft cards and registrations as a protest against the war. When interviewed, one of the men stated that they destroyed the local board office as an attempt to “ . . . [free] several thousand young men from the Selective Service system” and to act as interference between the “death-dealing machinery” and young men. None of the men was charged with vandalizing the office. 

Veterans Returning Home 

Many Vietnam veterans struggled upon their return to the United States. 

In 1968, Life Magazine published a scathing article about the mistreatment veterans received at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital. The article detailed the hospital’s grotesque conditions, including an ongoing rat infestation and poor staffing. Patients were left unattended and often forced to care for themselves and others. 

Many veterans struggled to find employment. Fewer educational opportunities and systematic racism often compounded this problem for African American veterans. Other veterans returned and struggled with drug abuse. 

The New York Times reported in 1973 that of the approximately 300,000 Vietnam veterans living in the Bronx, an estimated 4,500 received welfare benefits. Many veterans felt that it was a demeaning and disorganized system that required many hours to sign up and qualify for benefits. Other veterans who found success in the welfare system sought to reform it and make it more accessible to others. 

Military Experience

Badolati initially enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and trained at Lackland Air Force Base in Bexar County, Texas. The 1950 U.S. census shows him as a private first class, living in barracks with soldiers of similar rank. In his free time, Badolati boxed and competed in the Golden Gloves tournament in Waco, Texas. He was in the welterweight class and fought in the novice division. 

While in the military, Badolati married Jonny Helga, who was born in Sweden on August 10, 1944. The couple had one child, Daisy Ann, born on March 22, 1962. 

Badolati also trained at the U.S Naval School located at the U.S. Naval Base in Key West, Florida. He completed the Underwater Swimmers Class (10-63) on June 28, 1963. 

At some point, Badolati enlisted in the U.S. Army, completed specialized training, and was assigned to the 5^th Special Forces Group. 

The 5^th Special Forces Group

The primary role of the 5^th Special Forces Group was to train numerous indigenous populations of South Vietnam through a program called “Civilian Irregular Defense Groups,” or CIDG. The purpose of this program was to equip civilians with skills to fight against the Viet Cong. The unit also worked with the Luc Luong Dac Biet, or South Vietnamese Special Forces, to improve their military operations. 

In addition to training, members of the  5^th Special Forces Group conducted reconnaissance missions. Through these missions, the unit established District Intelligence and Operations Coordinating Centers (DIOCCs) in four regions across Vietnam. These centers were used to mobilize troops, gather intelligence, and work with the South Vietnamese. 

In Vietnam, Staff Sergeant Badolati was stationed in Nha Trang at Camp Nguyen Van Tan. This was a tactical operations center that also served as the Special Forces headquarters.

Project Delta

Badolati was an infantry operations and intelligence specialist for Project Delta (B-52), a precursor to modern-day U.S. Special Forces. Badolati led reconnaissance teams of 6-12 members that often included at least two local Vietnamese soldiers at any given point. 

Badolati participated in Operation Mallet, which began on January 4, 1966, in Di An, Vietnam. During this operation, he acted as team leader for Recon Team #6. The other Americans on his team were Staff Sergeant Roland T. Terry and Sergeant Charles A. McDonald. There is no record of the Vietnamese soldiers’ names on his team. Operation Mallet was important as it would provide key intelligence as well as inflict major damage on “Highway 15,” one of the main roads used by the Viet Cong. 

Badolati also served in the Bong Son Campaign. This campaign is more commonly known as Operation Masher, though it was later renamed Operation White Wing at President Lyndon B. Johnson’s request. The operation began on January 24, 1966, and lasted until March 1966 in the An Loa Valley, Binh Dinh Province. Badolati was on team #3, Team Roadrunner, one of three reconnaissance teams sent to attack Viet Cong forces and secure the area. 

Team Roadrunner was led by Sergeant First Class Marcus L. Huston. The other men on the team included Staff Sergeant Billy A. McKeithe, Master Sergeant Wiley W. Gray, Staff Sergeant Ronald Terrance Terry, and Sergeant First Class Cecil Joe Hodgson.

According to a biographic site report, which utilizes Sergeant First Class Huston’s witness account, the team was ambushed by a small group of Viet Cong on January 29. Badolati was shot in the arm, resulting in a wound that was so severe that his arm was nearly severed. Hodgson applied a tourniquet to the wound to slow the bleeding, but the men had to keep moving as they were under attack. 

The men divided into two three-man teams to evade the Viet Cong. Huston and McKeithe helped Badolati to a stream bed and supplied him with morphine and additional medical aid. Unfortunately, the two other men could not do much more to help. According to Huston, Badolati knew this and repeatedly asked to be left behind. Huston and McKeithe refused. The two men stayed with Badolati for hours until he passed away from blood loss. Only when he died did they continue. 

Two other men on the reconnaissance team were also lost on the mission. Staff Sergeant Ronald Terry was shot and presumed killed in action (KIA).  Sergeant First Class Cecil Hodgson was presumed missing in action (MIA) as no one witnessed him being injured. The remains of Badolati, Terry, and Hodgson remain unrecovered.  

Commemoration

In 1992, the Joint Task Force – Full Accounting (JTFFA) was established to focus on achieving the fullest possible accounting of Americans missing from the Vietnam War. During its investigation, former North Vietnamese soldiers were interviewed. The testimony provided coincided with the information the military already had on file. 

The task force interviewed Dinh Van Den, a North Vietnamese officer. Although he himself was not on the mission, as commander, he was constantly informed of any military actions his troops encountered. According to Den, his guerrilla fighters reported encountering a six-man American reconnaissance team on January 26, 1966. 

Den reported that upon first contact, the Viet Cong opened fire on the group. Den was told that “one of the Americans suffered a serious wound to the upper arm,” lying in a stream bed. Reportedly, the local forces were ordered to remove the remains from the stream and bury them nearby. They also reportedly stumbled upon two other American sets of remains, but they were unable to bury them. 

In the same year, the U.S interviewed Dinh Van Lee, a member of the An Lao Valley District Forces who was a part of the VC team that ambushed Team Roadrunner. Lee recounted following a blood trail until he found the body of a deceased American with a severe upper arm injury lying in a stream bed. 

A third witness, Dinh Van Tray, reported that he was part of the group that buried the deceased American near the stream bed. Similar to the other accounts, Tray described Badolati’s arm wound. 

Legacy 

Staff Sergeant Badolati received a Silver Star, awarded for bravery, and a Purple Heart for wounds received in battle. Project Delta (B-52) earned the unit award, the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, for military actions between 1964 and 1968. 

As his remains are unrecovered, Badolati is memorialized at Court B of the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. His name is also inscribed on Panel 4E of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and on the Vietnam Veteran Memorial at the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery.

After visiting the Vietnam Wall, his daughter, Daisy, wrote, “It was terribly sad and lonely, but there I found a place to cry and many people to share my tears. I don’t believe I will ever see my father in this lifetime. I was only three the last time I saw him.” 

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This profile was researched and created through the Researching Silent Heroes program, sponsored by the American Battle Monuments Commission.