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BRUCE ALAN SWAIM
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 13, 1945 – February 22, 1968
Service recordBruce Alan Swaim, of Lynn, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 22, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 69
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
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 13, 1945
- Home of record
- Lynn, Indiana (Randolph County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 22, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
He died in Kien Hoa Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 69
- HECTOR LUIS SEMIDEYPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
- CARY CARSON SMITHFirst Lieutenant · February 22, 1968
- JERRY WALTON SMITHPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
- LEE G TOLLEYPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
From Lynn
- DON R SHACKELFORDFirst Sergeant · February 9, 1966
- WILLIAM ARNOLD WESTLAKECorporal · September 26, 1968
- THOMAS EUGENE JOHNSONLance Corporal · June 2, 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.