Rank: Private First Class
Unit: E Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 8-Nov-1942
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 10-Jan-1967
Incident date: 9-May-1967
Date of casualty: 9-May-1967
Age at death: 24
Cause of death: Hostile, died while missing. Unknown. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Franklin Steven Rutberg was on combat operation when a hostile claymore mine detonated.
Location of fatality: Quang Ngai, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Montefiore Cemetery, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, USA
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