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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Malcolm Cyril Dulac.

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MALCOLM CYRIL DULAC

First Sergeant · U.S. Army

December 25, 1931 – May 5, 1968

Service record

Malcolm Cyril Dulac, of Dexter, Maine, served as a First Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 5, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 55E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 55E · Line 10

Position of Panel 55E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Sergeant (1SG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Senior Sergeant (11G)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
December 25, 1931
Home of record
Dexter, Maine (Penobscot County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 5, 1968
Age
36
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

189 names on the Wall carry the date May 5, 1968; 24 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 55E, Line 10

Same unit, same day

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.