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PHILIP RUSH FINK
First Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 7, 1927 – August 13, 1968
Service recordPhilip Rush Fink, of Mosheim, Tennessee, served as a First Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 41. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 6
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. Army
- Rank
- First Sergeant (1SG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Senior Sergeant (11G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 7, 1927
- Home of record
- Mosheim, Tennessee (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 13, 1968
- Age
- 41
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date August 13, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 86 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 6
- TERRY RICHARD HINKLESpecialist Four · August 13, 1968
- DUANE AARON JOHNSONSergeant · August 13, 1968
- JIMMIE LYNN KRATZBERGPrivate First Class · August 13, 1968
- FREDDIE LEWISPrivate First Class · August 13, 1968
From Mosheim
- FRANK TIMOTHY SHELTONPrivate First Class · May 18, 1966
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.