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RUSSELL PETER BOTT
Master Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 5, 1936 – December 2, 1966
Service recordRussell Peter Bott, of Worcester, Massachusetts, served as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on December 2, 1966, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 3
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Master Sergeant (MSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- September 5, 1936
- Home of record
- Worcester, Massachusetts (Worcester County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- December 2, 1966
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date December 2, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 13E, Line 3
- LEE JOSEPH BOUDREAUX JRSpecialist Four · December 2, 1966
- HARVE EDWARD BROWNPrivate First Class · December 2, 1966
- TITUS LEVEN BURGESSPrivate First Class · December 2, 1966
- WILLIAM LOUIS CHERRYPrivate First Class · December 2, 1966
Same unit, same day
- IRBY DYER IIISergeant · Panel 13E, Line 4
- WILLIE ERNEST STARKSergeant Major · Panel 13E, Line 7
From Worcester
- THOM THURSTON OSBORNPrivate First Class · January 28, 1966
- DAVID LAWRENCE DRAKE JRHospitalman · March 20, 1966
- ROBERT J DIREDAPrivate First Class · March 30, 1966
- PAUL RICHARD CAPUANOPrivate First Class · April 1, 1966
- DANIEL VICTOR MANZAROCorporal · April 1, 1966
- RALPH VICTOR RENAULD JRPrivate First Class · July 15, 1966
- WALTER STEPHAN MOONEYLance Corporal · September 5, 1966
- RICHARD CHARLES JOHNSONPrivate First Class · September 26, 1966
- ALLAN PHILIP COLLAMORE JRLieutenant Commander · February 4, 1967
- PHILLIP ANTHONY OBRIENPrivate First Class · May 10, 1967
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.