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BRUCE H RAWLING
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 22, 1948 – January 23, 1969
Service recordBruce H Rawling, of Prescott, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 23, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 67
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Prescott, Wisconsin (Pierce County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 23, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1969; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 31 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 67
- JERRY ALLEN PALMERPrivate First Class · January 23, 1969
- HENRY ELLWOOD PEARCE IIHospitalman · January 23, 1969
- HERBERT LEE PIERCE JRPrivate First Class · January 23, 1969
- LEONARD DALE ROSEPrivate First Class · January 23, 1969
From Prescott
- BRUCE BRADLEY HARTMANSpecialist Four · January 9, 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.