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WILLIAM R RUSS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 5, 1948 – November 7, 1967
Service recordWilliam R Russ, of Elizabethtown, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 7, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 43
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- October 5, 1948
- Home of record
- Elizabethtown, North Carolina (Bladen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 7, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date November 7, 1967; nine of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 142 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Battle of Đắk Tô was under way. Around Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands (3–23 November 1967), the 4th Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought North Vietnamese regiments for the hills along the border, ending with the assault on Hill 875 on Thanksgiving Day. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 29E, Line 43
- RONALD HARRY PAYNESergeant · November 7, 1967
- JESSE JAMES PEARSONPrivate First Class · November 7, 1967
- PASCAL CLEATUS POOLAW SRFirst Sergeant · November 7, 1967
- KRAG BARRY ROYDESPrivate First Class · November 7, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DONALD R CAMPBELLSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 42
- GREGORY WALTER MCFADDENPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 42
- HENRY HERBERT MCGEEStaff Sergeant · Panel 29E, Line 42
- DENNIS EUGENE MOOREPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 42
- JESSE JAMES PEARSONPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 43
- KRAG BARRY ROYDESPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 43
- SECUNDINO GARCIA SOSA JRPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 44
- JAMES OLIVER THOMASSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 45
From Elizabethtown
- THOMAS FREDRICK SWANN JRFirst Lieutenant · May 10, 1968
- DAVID SMITH IISpecialist Four · June 23, 1968
- ARTHUR R NEWKIRKSpecialist Five · May 25, 1969
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.