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RUBEN NOAH TACKETT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 25, 1949 – March 13, 1968
Service recordRuben Noah Tackett, of Mcroberts, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 41
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 25, 1949
- Home of record
- Mcroberts, Kentucky (Letcher County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 208 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 41
- LARRY DEE SHERMANSpecialist Four · March 13, 1968
- VERNON ROBERT STEADPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- TODD EARLE SWANSONPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- J ATHAN THEODORESergeant · March 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LEON JOSEPH ATTERIDGE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 33
- DAVID LEE EDNEYSpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 35
- ARNOLD PAUL SARNASpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 40
From Mcroberts
- JOSEPH BOYD SUMPTERPrivate First Class · September 9, 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.