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ROGER DEAN BULIFANT
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 6, 1947 – February 28, 1966
Service recordRoger Dean Bulifant, of Belleville, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 28, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 84
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- April 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Belleville, Michigan (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 28, 1966
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1966; 16 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 5E, Line 84
- JOSEPH JOHN REILLYPrivate First Class · February 27, 1966
- DONALD WAYNE SMITHSpecialist Four · February 27, 1966
- JAMES MAYNARD SPENCESpecialist Four · February 27, 1966
- HENRY CLAYTON CASEBOLTCorporal · February 28, 1966
From Belleville
- ROBERT GORDON PETRIMOULXPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
- KENNETH LIGE FULTONSpecialist Five · February 15, 1968
- EDWARD ALAN BIESPrivate First Class · May 19, 1968
- JAMES SHELTON STACEYSpecialist Four · August 2, 1969
- GREG ALLEN BARKERPrivate First Class · August 12, 1969
- GARY ALLEN KIRCHNERPrivate First Class · May 8, 1971
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.