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SAMUEL RUEBEN HUGHES
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
October 5, 1944 – April 21, 1968
Service recordSamuel Rueben Hughes, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 21, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 21
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- October 5, 1944
- Home of record
- Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 21, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date April 21, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 51E, Line 21
- KEVIN RAY CASSELLPrivate First Class · April 21, 1968
- THOMAS MARVIN HOLCOMBEPrivate First Class · April 21, 1968
- LARRY CARL JAMERSONSpecialist Six · April 21, 1968
- FRANKIE B JOHNSON JRSpecialist Six · April 21, 1968
From Los Angeles
- JAMES WILLIAM MCNALLYTechnical Sergeant · October 23, 1963
- FRANK JOHN HOLGUINPrivate First Class · March 15, 1964
- RICHARD DEAN GOSSCaptain · August 29, 1964
- JOHN LOWERY MCCOYSergeant First Class · September 26, 1964
- JAMES HENRY MCLEANMaster Sergeant · February 9, 1965
- DWIGHT GLENN FRAKESChief Petty Officer · February 24, 1965
- AARON HAROLD WESTERNPrivate First Class · June 16, 1965
- EDWARD JAMES ANDERSPrivate First Class · June 18, 1965
- MAURICE RICHARD HILLPrivate · June 29, 1965
- WILLIAM WARREN HAILLieutenant Colonel · August 2, 1965
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.