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RONALD DELL BUNTING
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 1, 1945 – February 10, 1968
Service recordRonald Dell Bunting, of Corning, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 10, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 68
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- August 1, 1945
- Home of record
- Corning, Iowa (Adams County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 10, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date February 10, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Ngãi Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 68
- EARL WARREN HAUGSergeant · February 10, 1968
- LARRY LEONARD HOYTPrivate First Class · February 10, 1968
- HUGH RICHARD JOHNSON JRSpecialist Four · February 10, 1968
- EUGENE VINCENT SONNERSergeant · February 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THEODORE JAMES STURTEVANTSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 72
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.