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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Russell Mark Wagner.

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RUSSELL MARK WAGNER

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

August 7, 1926 – January 28, 1967

Service record

Russell Mark Wagner, of Vallejo, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 28, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 93

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
August 7, 1926
Home of record
Vallejo, California (Solano County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 28, 1967
Age
40
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date January 28, 1967; five of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 93

From Vallejo

All 28 names from Vallejo →

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.