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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gary H Brux.

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GARY H BRUX

Captain · U.S. Army

April 5, 1938 – October 6, 1966

Service record

Gary H Brux, of Greenwood, Wisconsin, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on October 6, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 11E · Line 51

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Captain (CPT)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
April 5, 1938
Home of record
Greenwood, Wisconsin (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 6, 1966
Age
28
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date October 6, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 11E, Line 51

From Greenwood

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.