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FRANKLIN DWIGHT RUIS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 5, 1948 – March 19, 1967
Service recordFranklin Dwight Ruis, of Macon, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 19, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 114
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- October 5, 1948
- Home of record
- Macon, Georgia (Bibb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 19, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 19, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 114
- JAMES PATRICK NAILENPrivate First Class · March 19, 1967
- FRED HENRY PATTERSONSergeant · March 19, 1967
- RUSSELL LEE ROOTSpecialist Four · March 19, 1967
- JAMES JUNIUS RUFFINSpecialist Four · March 19, 1967
From Macon
- EDDIE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- RALPH LEON HINSONStaff Sergeant · December 17, 1965
- HAZE HOWARD IIISpecialist Four · July 3, 1966
- JIMMY ALVIN JOHNSONSergeant · September 23, 1966
- WAYNE THAD STRICKLANDCorporal · September 24, 1966
- WILLIAM SHERWOOD COCHRANPrivate First Class · November 6, 1966
- RALLS HAWKINSPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- SANDY LEE ROSSPrivate First Class · January 11, 1967
- WILLIS LEE FURNEYSergeant · March 9, 1967
- DON CURTIS BENFIELDPrivate · April 8, 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.