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BOBBY JAMES SHELTON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 7, 1944 – September 29, 1967
Service recordBobby James Shelton, of Flag Pond, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 29, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 31
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
- May 7, 1944
- Home of record
- Flag Pond, Tennessee (Unicoi County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 29, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date September 29, 1967; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 31
- LYNELL NEBLETTLance Corporal · September 29, 1967
- NIEL BURNS RIGGSPrivate First Class · September 29, 1967
- CLARENCE RIVERSPrivate First Class · September 29, 1967
- WILLIAM MICHAEL SKOVRANPrivate First Class · September 29, 1967
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL JOSEPH KOLLERSpecialist Four · Panel 27E, Line 29
- WILLIAM LAWREN MCDANIELSSergeant · Panel 27E, Line 30
- NIEL BURNS RIGGSPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 31
From Flag Pond
- BOBBY GENE HAYNESSergeant · September 6, 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.