Melvin Neal Rutherford

Company B 1/22 Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 06/20/70

 

 

 

MOS: 11B40: Infantryman

 

 

Melvin Rutherford

Photo from the VVMF website

 

 

Melvin Rutherford at the base camp at An Khe
getting ready to go out on a mission

 

 

 

Melvin Rutherford was killed in action during an engagement with hostile forces
at grid reference BR599815, approximately 23 kilometers north/northwest of Vinh Thanh airfield.
The action with the enemy was known as the Battle of the Rock. It was the largest engagement
fought by 1st Battalion in 1970.

 

 

 

SGT Melvin Rutherford's decorations

 

 

 

Burial:

Hillcrest Memorial Park
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky

 

Grave marker for Melvin N. Rutherford

Photo by CB from the Find A Grave website

 

 

 

 

Top photo of Melvin Rutherford by Jim Bacorn, B 1/22 Infantry 1969-1970

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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