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WILFRIED BURCK
Corporal · U.S. Army
July 27, 1946 – April 27, 1967
Service recordWilfried Burck, of Utica, Michigan, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 100
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 2 BN 34 ARM 25 INF DIV
- Born
- July 27, 1946
- Home of record
- Utica, Michigan (Macomb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 27, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1967; eight of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 100
- JAMES AUSTIN BENTONLance Corporal · April 27, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD BOORMANSergeant · April 27, 1967
- JAMES DENNIS BRONAKOSKISpecialist Four · April 27, 1967
- REINALDO ANTONIO CASTROSergeant · April 27, 1967
From Utica
- FRANK MUSCYNSKISergeant · May 19, 1966
- ANDREW CHMIELLance Corporal · October 13, 1966
- PETER JOHN SCHUTZSpecialist Four · March 3, 1967
- WILLIAM GRANT DELLVONPrivate First Class · July 8, 1967
- GEORGE SAMUEL CAMPBELLSpecialist Four · July 26, 1967
- HARRY GROVER KUNKLER IIISpecialist Five · June 11, 1969
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.