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BRUCE LAMAR WATKINS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
November 26, 1946 – March 21, 1966
Service recordBruce Lamar Watkins, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 21, 1966, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 36
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)
- Unit (as recorded)
- K CO 3 BN 1 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- November 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1966; 35 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “K CO 3 BN 1 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 36
- DANIEL TIENDACorporal · March 21, 1966
- JULIUS JOSEPH VALINT JRLance Corporal · March 21, 1966
- WILLIAM GLENN WADELance Corporal · March 21, 1966
- HAROLD WENDELL WILSONLance Corporal · March 21, 1966
Same unit, same day
- DENNIS RICHARD ANDREWLance Corporal · Panel 6E, Line 28
- WILLIAM GEORGE BLANCHARDPrivate First Class · Panel 6E, Line 28
- JAMES HENRY CAVICCHI JRLance Corporal · Panel 6E, Line 31
- STEPHAN JAMES MARTINPrivate First Class · Panel 6E, Line 33
- MICHAEL GARY MURRAYLance Corporal · Panel 6E, Line 34
- STANLEY RIFFLECorporal · Panel 6E, Line 34
- RICHARD DAVID SWAYZEPrivate First Class · Panel 6E, Line 35
- BILLIE JOE WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · Panel 1W, Line 94
From Atlanta
- DAVID NIPPERLance Corporal · November 21, 1964
- JAMES ANTHONY COYAirman First Class · June 11, 1965
- JAMES THARPE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1965
- WESLIE DAVID MEWBORNPetty Officer First Class · September 8, 1964
- DOUGLAS HORACE LEACHSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- RONNIE THOMAS MATHISSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GEORGE S MCHELLONSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 1965
- CLIFFORD THOMAS JOHNSONPrivate · January 29, 1966
- HARVEY LEWIS BOWEN JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
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.