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DUANE LORENZ BUSSELMAN
Corporal · U.S. Army
October 7, 1946 – August 26, 1968
Service recordDuane Lorenz Busselman, of Rosalie, Nebraska, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on August 26, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 27
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 82 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 7, 1946
- Home of record
- Rosalie, Nebraska (Thurston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 26, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date August 26, 1968; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 27
- ROBERT GEORGE BULL IICaptain · August 26, 1968
- GARY LYN CLAPPPrivate First Class · August 26, 1968
- ROBERT WAYNE CLARKEPrivate First Class · August 26, 1968
- THOMAS REINO LINDPrivate First Class · August 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- PHILIP WARREN WEAVERCorporal · Panel 46W, Line 35
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.