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RUSSELL JOSEPH WEEKLEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 26, 1944 – June 11, 1968
Service recordRussell Joseph Weekley, of Sulphur, Louisiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 11, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 30
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 26, 1944
- Home of record
- Sulphur, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 11, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 30
- CHARLES CLINTON WHITELance Corporal · June 11, 1968
- ROY ALAN WINTERSpecialist Four · June 11, 1968
- GERARD THEODORE WOLTERMANPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
- EDWARD TAYLOR WRIGHTGunnery Sergeant · June 11, 1968
From Sulphur
- TERRY LEE ELLENDERCorporal · April 8, 1967
- RUSSELL ELWARD PAGELance Corporal · June 21, 1967
- WILLIAM LEE BRIDGESPrivate First Class · February 4, 1968
- DOUGLAS JOSEPH CRADEURSergeant · May 5, 1968
- JOHN THOMAS HOSKINSCaptain · May 6, 1968
- LARRY JOHN LAPOINTSergeant · August 18, 1968
- HALTON RAMSEY VINCENTCaptain · September 30, 1971
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.