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REX RUSSELL SAGE
Colonel · U.S. Army
May 16, 1919 – September 8, 1968
Service recordRex Russell Sage, of Roberta, Georgia, served as a Colonel in the U.S. Army. He died on September 8, 1968, in Quang Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 49. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · 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
- Colonel (COL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- May 16, 1919
- Home of record
- Roberta, Georgia (Crawford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 8, 1968
- Age
- 49
- Province
- Quang Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date September 8, 1968; four of them were lost in Quang Duc Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 6
- DONALD RAYFORD ROBINSONPrivate First Class · September 8, 1968
- TERRY AUSTIN RUTHFirst Lieutenant · September 8, 1968
- BOBBY RECE SUMPTERPrivate First Class · September 8, 1968
- MICKEY LYNN SWATSLEYSpecialist Four · September 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS WALTER BARNARDMaster Sergeant · Panel 44W, Line 1
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.