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BOBBY GENE SIMPSON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 19, 1948 – December 11, 1968
Service recordBobby Gene Simpson, of Kansas City, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 11, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 7
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Kansas City, Missouri (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date December 11, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 7
- RAYMOND HOWARD HIGHLEYPrivate First Class · December 11, 1968
- VINCENT RALPH SALEMIPrivate First Class · December 11, 1968
- TIMOTHY DAVID STICKLEPrivate First Class · December 11, 1968
- WILLIAM JAMES SUGDENSpecialist Four · December 11, 1968
From Kansas City
- PATRICK PEARSE MANNINGPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- FRANK ALLEN GIVENPrivate First Class · August 24, 1965
- MICHAEL STEVENS HARRISPrivate First Class · December 9, 1965
- LESTER A ROGERSFirst Lieutenant · February 28, 1966
- JEROME NIXONPrivate First Class · March 23, 1966
- CHARLES R LAWHONWarrant Officer 1 · May 6, 1966
- JAMES PAUL DEBRULERPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
- DAYTON WILLIAM RAGLANDColonel · May 31, 1966
- ROBERT WILLIAM PECKPrivate First Class · July 10, 1966
- EUGENE JOLLYSpecialist Five · July 11, 1966
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.