Corporal Bazzell was a member of Headquarters Battery, 57th Field Artillery Battalion, 7th Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action while scouting the enemy about 10 miles north of Hagaru-ni, North Korea on November 30, 1950. His remains were not recovered.

Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Corporal Benjamin Robert Bazzell were accounted for in 2020. His name is permanently inscribed on the “Courts of the Missing” at the Honolulu Memorial.