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FRANK SCHUSTER
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
November 10, 1945 – March 27, 1968
Service recordFrank Schuster, of Willingboro, New Jersey, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 27, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 49
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Laundry Machine Operator (3261)
- Born
- November 10, 1945
- Home of record
- Willingboro, New Jersey (Burlington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 27, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 46E, Line 49
- WAYNE WILLIAM PEARCESergeant First Class · March 27, 1968
- WILLIE BUREL RICHMONDSpecialist Four · March 27, 1968
- MICHAEL CANDIDO RUSSOPrivate First Class · March 27, 1968
- RICHARD LEROY SCHMIDTPrivate First Class · March 27, 1968
From Willingboro
- MATTHEW JOHN DAVERNSpecialist Four · May 8, 1966
- ALFRED SEVENSKIPrivate · November 5, 1966
- RANDALL M CAMPBELL IIIPrivate First Class · November 19, 1966
- JOHN KARL TOOKELance Corporal · November 6, 1967
- EDWARD JOSEPH CRAIGPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
- BERNHARD M CHRISTIANSENLance Corporal · April 12, 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.