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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Charles Bulman.

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WILLIAM CHARLES BULMAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

April 17, 1947 – November 17, 1967

Service record

William Charles Bulman, of Johnson City, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 17, 1967, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 6

Position of Panel 30E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (62E)
Unit (as recorded)
B CO 864 ENG BN USARV
Born
April 17, 1947
Home of record
Johnson City, New York (Broome County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 17, 1967
Age
20
Province
Darlac
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date November 17, 1967; four of them were lost in Darlac Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 6

From Johnson City

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.