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Rushton, Wayne Sterling, CN.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Eastlake
Last Address Eastlake
Casualty Date Dec 31, 1970
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Location Bien Hoa (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Western Reserve Memorial Gardens - Chesterland, Ohio
The US Naval Forces Vietnam Command History contains the following entry: "The most serious incident reported by CB units occurred on the last day of the month at 1445H on a waterway near Kien Binh (WS 406 036) where the bodies of five USN Seabees were found. All the bodies contained gunshot and fragmentation wounds. Investigation of witnesses disclosed that five U.S. personnel armed with 3 M-16s and one pistol had been sighted in a Boston Whaler by Vietnamese personnel an hour and a half before, and ARVN units reported seeing U.S. personnel in a firefight in the same area. A Vietnamese eyewitness account indicated two VC sampans engaged the whaler, which was later found abandoned, with grenade and AK-47 fire on the Kinh Thot Not Canal. The five Seabees were attached to NMCB 74 and traveling from Cho Moi to Binh Thuy for minor medical treatment." The five Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 74 were BU2 Jerry B. Edmonds, Crossville, TN; CE3 Harold E. Asher, Tulsa, OK; EOCN Edgar P. Beck, Gowanda, NY; CN John F. Neubauer, Mount Vernon, NY; and CN Wayne S. Rushton, Eastlake, OH.
