Lee Henderson Russ
Specialist Four
B CO, 1ST BN, 5TH INFANTRY, 25TH INF DIV, USARV
Army of the United States
Oakland, California
October 28, 1944 to May 03, 1967
LEE H RUSS is on the Wall at Panel 19E, Line 32

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SP4 LEE HENDERSON RUSS 1st Platoon Hooch
Left to right
Top row: Henry, Don, Doc, Lloyd, Ed, Tim Heeling
Center: Lee Henderson Russ
Bottom Row: Jerry, Lance, Luke
Photo courtesy of Tim Fyle


REMEMBERED

by his comrades in the

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5th Infantry Regiment

 
On 03 May 1967 B Company, 1st Bn, 5th Infantry lost four men in the Ho Bo Woods about 7 Kilometers South-Southeast of Ben Suc when their armored personnel carrier was hit by recoilless rife fire: A fifth member of the Company, SP4 Randall Arbogast of Valley Head, West Virginia, was wounded by a white phosphorous grenade and died at Brook Army Hospital in San Antonio, Texas on 31 May 1967.

SP4 Lee Henderson Russ was born in McNeil, Columbia County, South Carolina and was survived by his mother Queen Esther (Johnson) Tooks (1925-2002), of Stephens Arkansas. He was pre-deceased by his father, Leon Russ (1924-1944), 4 months before Lee was born.

Lee is buried in the same cemetery as his mother, Macedonia (aka Beech Hill) (African American) Cemetery, Columbia County, Arkansas.

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- - The Virtual Wall, July 8, 2018

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