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BRUCE WESLEY DUDLEY JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 12, 1947 – January 23, 1968
Service recordBruce Wesley Dudley JR, of Cayce, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 23, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 15
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- August 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Cayce, South Carolina (Lexington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 23, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 15
- BOYCE LOWRANCE DUNCAN JRSpecialist Four · January 23, 1968
- GARY BERYL DUNCANSpecialist Four · January 23, 1968
- RONNIE JOE ESKEWSpecialist Four · January 23, 1968
- MICHAEL FRANCIS FANNINGLance Corporal · January 23, 1968
From Cayce
- BENJAMIN EDWARD KELLY JRCaptain · August 30, 1967
- CLIFTON OLIVERSpecialist Four · May 16, 1968
- FAY CLYDE SIMMONS IIILance Corporal · July 3, 1968
- JOHNNIE LEE BRIGMANPrivate · May 29, 1969
- THOMAS MARCELLUS TAYLORSpecialist Four · November 24, 1969
- THOMAS ALAN MCKINNEYPrivate First Class · April 22, 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.