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BOBBY DALE JENNINGS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 3, 1949 – March 25, 1969
Service recordBobby Dale Jennings, of Granite City, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 25, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 37
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Mortarman (0341)
- Born
- December 3, 1949
- Home of record
- Granite City, Illinois (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 37
- PRENTICE WAYNE HICKSSergeant First Class · March 25, 1969
- LEONARD WILLIAM LABOWSKISergeant · March 25, 1969
- EDWARD DONALD LAMOREUXPrivate First Class · March 25, 1969
- PHILLIP EDMOND LYNCHPrivate First Class · March 25, 1969
From Granite City
- ROBERT EDWARD EMERYPrivate · December 9, 1965
- GENE E CHEPELYPrivate First Class · February 7, 1966
- JOHN BERNARD CAUSEYCaptain · February 25, 1966
- LOREN EUGENE BRADLEYPrivate First Class · April 29, 1966
- RALPH ROGER JUSTICEStaff Sergeant · January 6, 1967
- JAMES RAY DOWDYPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- JOE CARL LEUTENEGGERPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- RICHARD EUGENE SHILTSpecialist Four · August 17, 1967
- RICHARD JOHN GIEBECorporal · November 9, 1967
- MICHAEL EDWARD ADAMSSergeant · November 19, 1967
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.