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CLAUDE DOUGLAS PULLEN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 9, 1950 – May 14, 1969
Service recordClaude Douglas Pullen, of Statesville, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 14, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 11
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- February 9, 1950
- Home of record
- Statesville, North Carolina (Iredell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 14, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
69 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1969; 24 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 34 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 24W, Line 11
- GARY REID CLODFELTERSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
- DONALD WAYNE PRIEST JRSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
- MICHAEL WILLIAM RECTORConstructionman · May 14, 1969
- DAVID BRENNAN SCHACHNERSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DAVID BRUNERSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 2
- RAYMOND CRITESPrivate · Panel 24W, Line 3
From Statesville
- MURRAY SIMS MOSELEYSpecialist Four · April 30, 1966
- JOHNIE WAYNE MCLAINPrivate First Class · August 2, 1966
- JERRY WAYNE CAMPBELLSergeant · July 25, 1967
- WILLIAM EDDIE HOCKERCaptain · September 5, 1967
- GEORGE LAXLEY MYERSSergeant · December 12, 1967
- ELBERT HENRY MAXWELLPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- RONALD JAY MCCOYPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- EUGENE MORGAN SUTTON JRSergeant · May 19, 1968
- ARDREY WATTS BARRINGER JRPrivate · June 9, 1968
- WILLIAM THEODORE ANDERSONStaff Sergeant · August 25, 1968
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.