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RONNIE LEN RUSSELL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 30, 1950 – October 28, 1968
Service recordRonnie Len Russell, of Stone Park, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 28, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 48
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 30, 1950
- Home of record
- Stone Park, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 28, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 28, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 40W, Line 48
- ROCKY LEE BLAIRLance Corporal · October 28, 1968
- CHARLES RICHARD CONNORLieutenant Colonel · October 28, 1968
- JOHNNY LEE EVANSCorporal · October 28, 1968
- KENNETH WAYNE FAULPrivate First Class · October 28, 1968
From Stone Park
- ROBERT HAL CORLEYCorporal · March 19, 1966
- WILLIAM JOHN SCHULTZPrivate First Class · August 20, 1966
- ROBERT NATHANIEL LATIMERPrivate First Class · June 8, 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.