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VERNON TERRY BULLIN
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
November 12, 1946 – December 28, 1968
Service recordVernon Terry Bullin, of Walnut Cove, North Carolina, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 28, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · 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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- November 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Walnut Cove, North Carolina (Stokes County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 28, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date December 28, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 36W, Line 84
- FRANCIS DAVID DONOHUECorporal · December 28, 1968
- WILLIAM EDWIN FERGUSONCaptain · December 28, 1968
- REID ERNEST GRAYSON JRPrivate First Class · December 28, 1968
- A W HOWARD JRSergeant · December 28, 1968
From Walnut Cove
- DONALD GRAY SMITHPrivate First Class · June 12, 1968
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.