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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Bruce Lloyd Wold.

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BRUCE LLOYD WOLD

Sergeant · U.S. Army

November 3, 1946 – April 21, 1970

Service record

Bruce Lloyd Wold, of Minot, North Dakota, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 21, 1970, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11W · Line 33

Position of Panel 11W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Cannon Crewmember (13B)
Unit (as recorded)
92 FIELD FORCE
Born
November 3, 1946
Home of record
Minot, North Dakota (Ward County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 21, 1970
Age
23
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Burns/Smoke Inhalation

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date April 21, 1970; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “92 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11W, Line 33

Same unit, same day

From Minot

All 13 names from Minot →

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.