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BRUCE ALLAN BAKER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 21, 1947 – July 24, 1966
Service recordBruce Allan Baker, of Essex Junction, Vermont, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 24, 1966, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9E · Line 65
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 21, 1947
- Home of record
- Essex Junction, Vermont (Chittenden County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 24, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date July 24, 1966; 30 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 9E, Line 65
- ROBIN LEE ARNOLDLance Corporal · July 24, 1966
- RANDY DALE BROSNANPrivate First Class · July 24, 1966
- PRUITT HENRY CHEANEYPrivate First Class · July 24, 1966
- RONALD PERRY COATESLance Corporal · July 24, 1966
From Essex Junction
- STEWART JAMES LAVIGNECorporal · August 19, 1969
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.