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HENRY PULLUM JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 30, 1949 – March 1, 1969
Service recordHenry Pullum JR, of Americus, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 1, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30W · Line 7
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- January 30, 1949
- Home of record
- Americus, Georgia (Sumter County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 1, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1969; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30W, Line 7
- LAWRENCE WILLIAM PORTERPrivate First Class · March 1, 1969
- WILLIAM DEAN RYANSpecialist Five · March 1, 1969
- JOHN CHARLES SCHIFFHAUERSpecialist Five · March 1, 1969
- DAVID EDWARD SCHULZEPrivate First Class · March 1, 1969
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD LEWIS HARRISWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 30W, Line 3
- DAVID EDWARD SCHULZEPrivate First Class · Panel 30W, Line 7
- BEN HENRY WILKINS JRSpecialist Five · Panel 30W, Line 9
- DONN PETER ZARINASpecialist Four · Panel 30W, Line 9
From Americus
- JAMES STEWART JRSpecialist Four · July 31, 1966
- GLENN RICHARD MCCUAIGLance Corporal · August 2, 1967
- R B BRIDGES JRLance Corporal · June 15, 1968
- JOHNNY FRED SCOTTLance Corporal · July 21, 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.