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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 Frank Harry Bushey.

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FRANK HARRY BUSHEY

Private · U.S. Army

March 7, 1946 – April 10, 1968

Service record

Frank Harry Bushey, of Camden, New Jersey, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on April 10, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 49E · Line 8

Position of Panel 49E 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
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Supply Handler (56A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 LOGISTIC CMD
Born
March 7, 1946
Home of record
Camden, New Jersey (Camden County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 10, 1968
Age
22
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

53 names on the Wall carry the date April 10, 1968; three of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 49E, Line 8

Same unit, same day

From Camden

All 29 names from Camden →

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.