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BRUCE JOSEPH ALLEN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 20, 1947 – July 7, 1967
Service recordBruce Joseph Allen, of Morrisonville, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 7, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 24
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
- Wireman (2511)
- Born
- December 20, 1947
- Home of record
- Morrisonville, New York (Clinton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 7, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date July 7, 1967; 20 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 24
- LEON LOUIS VIVETTELance Corporal · July 6, 1967
- MILES EUGENE WHITEPrivate First Class · July 6, 1967
- ERIK BERNARD WICKENBERGSpecialist Four · July 6, 1967
- KENNETH RAY ANDERSONSpecialist Four · July 7, 1967
From Morrisonville
- THOMAS ARTHUR GODDEAUCorporal · June 30, 1967
- SHERMAN AMOS SORRELLStaff Sergeant · December 15, 1967
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.