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THOMAS EDWARD BUSH
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 10, 1948 – November 21, 1968
Service recordThomas Edward Bush, of Billerica, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 21, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 24
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
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- August 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Billerica, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 21, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 24
- JAMES LLOYD BROOKSSpecialist Four · November 21, 1968
- HARRY LEE BROWNSpecialist Four · November 21, 1968
- HERBERT RAY CURTISSpecialist Four · November 21, 1968
- JOHN PERRY DEIHLSpecialist Four · November 21, 1968
From Billerica
- JAMES THOMAS LONGCorporal · October 8, 1968
- PAUL JOSEPH FRINKSergeant · April 7, 1970
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.