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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Bruce Herbert Dyer.

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BRUCE HERBERT DYER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 2, 1946 – May 23, 1968

Service record

Bruce Herbert Dyer, of Federal Way, Washington, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 23, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 66E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 66E · Line 8

Position of Panel 66E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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)
25 INF DIV
Born
November 2, 1946
Home of record
Federal Way, Washington (King County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 23, 1968
Age
21
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 236 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 66E, Line 8

Same unit, same day

From Federal Way

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.