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BOBBIE MAXSEN AUTON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 18, 1942 – May 23, 1967
Service recordBobbie Maxsen Auton, of Taylorsville, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 23, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 88
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- April 18, 1942
- Home of record
- Taylorsville, North Carolina (Alexander County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 23, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1967; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 20E, Line 88
- PETER LYLE VALENCICHSergeant · May 22, 1967
- DONALD EDWARD WALTERS JRPrivate First Class · May 22, 1967
- RONALD WAYNE WARDPrivate First Class · May 22, 1967
- KENNETH GLEN WORMANPrivate First Class · May 22, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RALPH W BLACKERBYPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 89
- THOMAS L COLDRENFirst Lieutenant · Panel 20E, Line 90
From Taylorsville
- ROBERT BLAINE DANIELSLance Corporal · May 27, 1967
- LUNAS JONAS DANIELSSpecialist Four · February 15, 1968
- ROBERT GERALD JOLLYPrivate First Class · November 6, 1968
- TERRY WAYNE DEALSeaman · October 1, 1972
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.