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 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: SP4 James Herbert Flickinger, Burbank, California; PFC Chester Gale Jordan, Arlington, Texas (Bronze Star "V"); SP4 Glendell Morgan, Los Angeles, California; and SP4 Lee Henderson Russ, Oakland, California. 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. - - The Virtual Wall, July 8, 2018

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