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RUSSEL HOWARD HEWIT JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 27, 1943 – January 21, 1969
Service recordRussel Howard Hewit JR, of Seville, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 21, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 49
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- March 27, 1943
- Home of record
- Seville, Ohio (Medina County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 21, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date January 21, 1969; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 43 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 49
- GERALD LLOYD HABECKERCorporal · January 21, 1969
- TERRY NEIL HARDIGSergeant · January 21, 1969
- HENRY EMIL HOLDER JRSergeant · January 21, 1969
- RAYMOND JOSEPH KREKELBERGSeaman · January 21, 1969
Same unit, same day
- TERRENCE W MCFARLANDStaff Sergeant · Panel 34W, Line 52
From Seville
- GARY ERNEST EICHELERPrivate First Class · January 3, 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.