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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Douglas Duane Ruehle.

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DOUGLAS DUANE RUEHLE

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

April 7, 1950 – June 3, 1969

Service record

Douglas Duane Ruehle, of Sumner, Michigan, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 3, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 23W · Line 58

Position of Panel 23W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
April 7, 1950
Home of record
Sumner, Michigan (Gratiot County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 3, 1969
Age
19
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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56 names on the Wall carry the date June 3, 1969; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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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.