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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 Allen Bartley Russell.

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ALLEN BARTLEY RUSSELL

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

February 14, 1919 – May 20, 1967

Service record

Allen Bartley Russell, of Hayward, California, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 20, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 48. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 67

Position of Panel 20E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
February 14, 1919
Home of record
Hayward, California (Alameda County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 20, 1967
Age
48
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

Context · from the records

What was happening

91 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1967. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 67

Same unit, same day

From Hayward

All 48 names from Hayward →

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.