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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 Lee Randall Bush.

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LEE RANDALL BUSH

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 2, 1947 – June 6, 1968

Service record

Lee Randall Bush, of Lansing, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 6, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 60W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 60W · Line 26

Position of Panel 60W 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 First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
September 2, 1947
Home of record
Lansing, Michigan (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 6, 1968
Age
20
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

106 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 60W, Line 26

Same unit, same day

From Lansing

All 44 names from Lansing →

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.