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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Allan Bujalski.

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DAVID ALLAN BUJALSKI

Captain · U.S. Army

August 18, 1940 – August 15, 1967

Service record

David Allan Bujalski, of Carrington, North Dakota, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on August 15, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24E · Line 112

Position of Panel 24E 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
Captain (CPT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Intelligence Staff Officer (G2,a2,s2) (9301)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
August 18, 1940
Home of record
Carrington, North Dakota (Foster County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 15, 1967
Age
26
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date August 15, 1967; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 24E, Line 112

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.