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BRUCE COPLEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 12, 1949 – June 21, 1969
Service recordBruce Copley, of Shelby, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 21, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 103
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
- December 12, 1949
- Home of record
- Shelby, Ohio (Richland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 21, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date June 21, 1969; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 103
- LORANZEY PAUL CHAMBERSPrivate First Class · June 21, 1969
- HARRY JOSEPH COLONSpecialist Five · June 21, 1969
- ARTHUR COBY COUNCILL IIIPrivate First Class · June 21, 1969
- JAMES HERBERT COVEYPrivate First Class · June 21, 1969
From Shelby
- KENNETH EUGENE THORNTONSergeant · November 15, 1966
- DONALD RICHARD TROXELLPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- DELBERT O LEWISPrivate First Class · December 25, 1967
- THOMAS JOHN MOSS JRPrivate First Class · March 6, 1968
- JOSEPH MICHAEL CHEARNLEYPrivate First Class · June 9, 1968
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.