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HAROLD DENNIS VANBUSKIRK
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 7, 1946 – April 9, 1967
Service recordHarold Dennis Vanbuskirk, of Overland, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 8
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- February 7, 1946
- Home of record
- Overland, Missouri (St Louis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1967; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 8
- TERRY JAMES WHITTAKERPrivate First Class · April 9, 1967
- HOWARD EUGENE BEAGLESergeant · April 10, 1967
- LEONARD ALEXANDER CARTERPrivate First Class · April 10, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE WASHINGTON FROESpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 3
- FRANCIS M RINKERSergeant First Class · Panel 18E, Line 7
From Overland
- LAWRENCE JOSEPH KINDREDPrivate First Class · August 10, 1966
- ALVERN WARREN SCHLOTTMANLance Corporal · October 7, 1966
- THOMAS J GRAGNANISpecialist Four · December 5, 1966
- BILLIE JOE BARNETT JRSpecialist Four · November 7, 1967
- MICHAEL JOE DINGUSCorporal · December 6, 1967
- ROBERT EDWARD COOKSpecialist Four · April 6, 1968
- JAMES DAVID PRESSONSpecialist Four · March 6, 1970
- WILLIAM ALLEN NEUPrivate First Class · October 12, 1970
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.