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HOLLIE BOYD RUSSELL
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
December 9, 1946 – November 26, 1966
Service recordHollie Boyd Russell, of Princeton, Indiana, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 26, 1966, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 123 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 123
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Structural Mechanic (Hydraulics) (AMH)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- December 9, 1946
- Home of record
- Princeton, Indiana (Gibson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 26, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Offshore
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Ship/Submarine Accident At Sea (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date November 26, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 123
- ADRIAN FLOYD PURNELLFirst Lieutenant · November 26, 1966
- ALDEN LAVERNE RILEYChief Warrant Officer 4 · November 26, 1966
- KARL DAVID SOBOLIKCaptain · November 26, 1966
- ALAN RALPH STEFFENStaff Sergeant · November 26, 1966
From Princeton
- RICHARD EDWARD WOLFEPrivate First Class · January 6, 1968
- ROBERT LEE STALEY JRLance Corporal · January 30, 1968
- STEPHEN WAYNE HADLEYPrivate First Class · June 20, 1968
- WILLIAM THOMAS LYNNPrivate First Class · June 7, 1969
- THOMAS EARL LITTLEPAGEPrivate First Class · January 24, 1970
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.