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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 Patrick Thomas Dewulf.

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PATRICK THOMAS DEWULF

Corporal · U.S. Army

January 8, 1951 – July 20, 1970

Service record

Patrick Thomas Dewulf, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on July 20, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 8W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8W · Line 35

Position of Panel 8W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
January 8, 1951
Home of record
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (Oakland County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 20, 1970
Age
19
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date July 20, 1970; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1970, 495 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 114 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8W, Line 35

Same unit, same day

From Bloomfield Hills

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.