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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Juris Puduls.

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JURIS PUDULS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 29, 1943 – June 24, 1966

Service record

Juris Puduls, of Canton, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 24, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 88

Position of Panel 8E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
September 29, 1943
Home of record
Canton, Ohio (Stark County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 24, 1966
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date June 24, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 113 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 88

Same unit, same day

From Canton

All 63 names from Canton →

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.