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CLAUDE BENJAMIN RUSH JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 1, 1937 – December 29, 1966
Service recordClaude Benjamin Rush JR, of Beaumont, Texas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 29, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 100
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- June 1, 1937
- Home of record
- Beaumont, Texas (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 29, 1966
- Age
- 29
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 13E, Line 100
- JAMES THOMAS RENZPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
- DENNIS GUY SCHLOTTCorporal · December 29, 1966
- JACK LEON SHAFFERSergeant · December 29, 1966
- RICHARD EARL SIPESPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
From Beaumont
- JAMES LOUIS ALLENPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- ROBERT LOUIS HOPKINSSpecialist Five · February 6, 1966
- WARREN SHELBY MCELHANONPrivate First Class · March 9, 1966
- JOHN HENRY EAGLINSergeant · April 11, 1966
- DENNIS LEE REEVESSergeant · April 14, 1966
- FREDERIC WILLIAM FRITTSSpecialist Four · June 29, 1966
- BRENT IKE GRIGGSPrivate First Class · July 20, 1966
- CLAIR LEONARD RAY SAINTCorporal · February 26, 1967
- LARRY WAYNE WILKERSONPrivate First Class · April 20, 1967
- LEONARD BURTON POORESpecialist Four · June 22, 1967
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.