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BRUCE WAYNE BURKES
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 12, 1948 – June 5, 1968
Service recordBruce Wayne Burkes, of Kettering, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 5, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 60W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60W · Line 15
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)
- Born
- May 12, 1948
- Home of record
- Kettering, Ohio (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 5, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date June 5, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 60W, Line 15
- JAMES WESLEY BARBOURPrivate First Class · June 5, 1968
- LUTHER BURNSPrivate First Class · June 5, 1968
- VICTOR JOEL CANALESPrivate First Class · June 5, 1968
- WOODROW FRANKLIN CARBAUGHSergeant · June 5, 1968
From Kettering
- RICHARD ANDRESEN WESTCorporal · October 8, 1967
- TERANCE M BOZARTHFirst Lieutenant · February 22, 1968
- ANTHONY PAUL OREILLYFirst Lieutenant · June 3, 1968
- THOMAS DAVID STONEFirst Lieutenant · August 29, 1969
- RONALD JOSEPH SCHAAFSergeant · July 26, 1970
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.