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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Russell Martinez Lecompte.

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RUSSELL MARTINEZ LECOMPTE

Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy

September 17, 1928 – October 29, 1969

Service record

Russell Martinez Lecompte, of Foreign, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 29, 1969, in Bac Lieu Province, South Vietnam, at age 41. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 16W · Line 3

Position of Panel 16W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Storekeeper (SK)
Born
September 17, 1928
Home of record
Foreign (None County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 29, 1969
Age
41
Province
Bac Lieu
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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Eight names on the Wall carry the date October 29, 1969; two of them were lost in Bac Lieu Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 16W, Line 3

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.