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Title: First & Last Soldier Killed in Vietnam War
Date Created and/or Issued: 1973-01-27T08:00:00Z
Publication Information: Chapman University Digital Commons
Contributing Institution: Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives
Collection: UPI - The Vietnam War
Rights Information: copyrighted
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Description: Saigon: In all wars there must be a first death and a last death; and while they are no different from all the thousands that separate them, they somehow seem specially tragic. The first GI to die in the Vietnam war was Army Spec. 4 Tom Davis (left) of Livingston, Tenn., who was killed 12/22/61 near Duc Noa, South Vietnam, while serving as an adviser to South Vietnamese troops. The apparent last American to die in the war was Air Force Sgt. John O'Neil Rucker (right) of Linden, Texas, killed at Da Nang only hours before the 1/28 cease fire.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/upi_vietnam/151
Subject: Vietnam War
History
Military, War, and Peace
Source: UPI - The Vietnam War

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