Staff Sergeant

Russell B. Luker

USMC

Lancaster, Ohio

17 Feb 1933 - 1 Feb 1966

First Mechanic

Missing in action aboard "BASKETBALL 809", Marine Corps KC-130 Bureau Number QD 149809 while serving with VMGR-152, MWSG-17, 1ST MAW, MCAF Futenma, Okinawa, Japan.

He is listed on the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington DC, Panel 4E/130

Staff Sergeant Luker is memorialized at the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl Cemetery) in Honolulu, Hawaii.