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BRUCE LEE TRUHLER
Corporal · U.S. Army
July 30, 1948 – July 13, 1968
Service recordBruce Lee Truhler, of St Paul, Minnesota, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on July 13, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52W · Line 25
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 30, 1948
- Home of record
- St Paul, Minnesota (Ramsey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 13, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date July 13, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 63 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52W, Line 25
- BOBBY EDWARD REDDSergeant First Class · July 13, 1968
- RUSSELL DEAN SPIEROWSKIPrivate First Class · July 13, 1968
- JERRY LEE WEAVERLance Corporal · July 13, 1968
- LEROY WOODPrivate First Class · July 13, 1968
From St Paul
- RAYMOND CHARLES WILDEChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 11, 1963
- DAVID MICHAEL HALBAUERStaff Sergeant · October 13, 1965
- JOHN CALVIN ELZY IIIPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- ROBERT E WALDVOGELSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- ARLIN ROGER JENSENSpecialist Four · November 19, 1965
- JOHN WALTER WILSON JRPrivate First Class · December 10, 1965
- KALE ARLAN SOLBERGPrivate First Class · February 1, 1966
- JOSEPH SAMUEL HERRONPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- DAVID JOSEPH KERNPrivate First Class · April 1, 1966
- LAVERN GEORGE REILLYColonel · May 15, 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.