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Clyde Russell Herman
Specialist Four
B CO, 2ND BN, 8TH CAVALRY, 1ST CAV DIV, USARV Army of the United States Roanoke, Virginia April 20, 1943 to November 06, 1965 CLYDE R HERMAN is on the Wall at Panel 3E, Line 23 |
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Americans have come to know something about the fighting at Landing Zone X-Ray (Ia Drang Valley, 15 Nov 1965) since the book and movie We Were Soldiers Once - and Young came out. The earlier engagements between the newly arrived 1st Cavalry Division and the firmly emplaced North Vietnamese Army remain almost unknown. One such engagement took place on the west bank of the Ia Meur River on 06 Nov 1965, when two companies of the 1st Cavalry Division took on the NVA. Twenty-six Americans were killed in the action, which formed a prelude to the engagements at LZ X-Ray and LZ Albany. The men from Rusty's company were
They are remembered on the
Landing Zone X-Ray site and The Virtual Wall's Ia Drang Memorial Rusty died as a result of a gunshot wound to the abdomen. SP4 C Russel Herman was survived by his mother Mary Virginia (Hupman) Herman (1907-1983), father Charles Billings Herman (1909-1998) and sister Ruth Ellen. Rusty and his parents are buried in Evergreen Burial Park, Roanoke, Roanoke City, Virginia. 
Name inscribed on Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Washington, D.C. 
- - The Virtual Wall, 24 May 2023
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