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BOBBY DALE LIKENS
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
October 1, 1937 – November 30, 1967
Service recordBobby Dale Likens, of Cunard, West Virginia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 30, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 13
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- October 1, 1937
- Home of record
- Cunard, West Virginia (Fayette County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 30, 1967
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1967; 23 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 13
- ROGER GALE JUSTUSSpecialist Four · November 30, 1967
- ANTHONY EDWARD KISUCKYFirst Lieutenant · November 30, 1967
- NORMAN F LOEFFLER JRFirst Lieutenant · November 30, 1967
- LEON PETER MILLERSpecialist Four · November 30, 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.