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BOBBY EDWARD REDD
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 12, 1931 – July 13, 1968
Service recordBobby Edward Redd, of Chapman, Kansas, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 13, 1968, in Ba Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52W · Line 25
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
- December 12, 1931
- Home of record
- Chapman, Kansas (Dickinson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 13, 1968
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Ba Xugen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date July 13, 1968; five of them were lost in Ba Xugen Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52W, Line 25
- RUSSELL DEAN SPIEROWSKIPrivate First Class · July 13, 1968
- BRUCE LEE TRUHLERCorporal · July 13, 1968
- JERRY LEE WEAVERLance Corporal · July 13, 1968
- LEROY WOODPrivate First Class · July 13, 1968
From Chapman
- GARY RAY TROWERLance Corporal · May 18, 1969
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.