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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Russell Reid Bannister.

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RUSSELL REID BANNISTER

Sergeant · U.S. Army

October 14, 1945 – August 29, 1967

Service record

Russell Reid Bannister, of Lennon, Michigan, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 29, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 25E · Line 61

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Quarrying Specialist (62G)
Unit (as recorded)
630 ENG CO 39 ENG BN USARV
Born
October 14, 1945
Home of record
Lennon, Michigan (Genesee County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 29, 1967
Age
21
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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31 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Lennon

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.