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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 Leon Daniel Bullock.

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LEON DANIEL BULLOCK

Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 29, 1945 – September 15, 1968

Service record

Leon Daniel Bullock, of West Palm Beach, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 15, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 44W · Line 61

Position of Panel 44W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
July 29, 1945
Home of record
West Palm Beach, Florida (Palm Beach County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 15, 1968
Age
23
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date September 15, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 44W, Line 61

Same unit, same day

From West Palm Beach

All 27 names from West Palm Beach →

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.