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RUSSELL DEAN WAKE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 16, 1949 – July 7, 1968
Service recordRussell Dean Wake, of Springfield, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 7, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 53W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53W · Line 40
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
- Mechanical Maintenance Helper (63A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- July 16, 1949
- Home of record
- Springfield, Missouri (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 7, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date July 7, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 53W, Line 40
- THOMAS THOMAS SPRINKLESpecialist Four · July 7, 1968
- ROGER LEE STROUDCorporal · July 7, 1968
- JOSEPH EUGENE THOMASPrivate First Class · July 7, 1968
- ALAIN JOSEPH TREMBLAYSergeant First Class · July 7, 1968
From Springfield
- SHEPHEN HIETT PHILLIPSSergeant · July 18, 1965
- WILBERT CLAUDE DAVISSergeant · October 12, 1965
- DAVID MARSHALL KNIGHTSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD PHILLIPSPrivate First Class · November 19, 1966
- DOUGLAS BLAKE HAMILTONPrivate First Class · April 24, 1967
- JACK EUGENE GOSS IIPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- RANDALL KERWIN RUSSELLSergeant · July 6, 1967
- ROBERT DEAN CRAWFORDPrivate First Class · October 24, 1967
- JAMES DOYLE STOKESPrivate · November 30, 1967
- CHARLES KIRBY WILCOXCaptain · January 9, 1968
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.