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RUSSELL EMIL KRAUSE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 19, 1945 – June 3, 1966
Service recordRussell Emil Krause, of Pine Island, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 3, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 3
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Mortarman (0341)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HS CO 2 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- December 19, 1945
- Home of record
- Pine Island, Minnesota (Goodhue County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 3, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date June 3, 1966; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HS CO 2 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8E, Line 3
- JORGE LUIS ISALES-BENITEZSpecialist Four · June 3, 1966
- DONALD LEE JOHNSONSpecialist Four · June 3, 1966
- GARTH WAYNE KECK JRLance Corporal · June 3, 1966
- THEODORE EUGENE KRYSZAKColonel · June 3, 1966
From Pine Island
- HERMAN FRANCIS RUBINPrivate First Class · December 11, 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.