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BOBBY RAY MCKINNON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 22, 1949 – January 7, 1968
Service recordBobby Ray McKinnon, of Kosciusko, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 7, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 73
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
- February 22, 1949
- Home of record
- Kosciusko, Mississippi (Attala County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 7, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
77 names on the Wall carry the date January 7, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 33E, Line 73
- MICHAEL JOSEPH MENDENHALLPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
- JAMES J MORASpecialist Four · January 7, 1968
- ROBERT NIELSENCorporal · January 7, 1968
- JAMES EDMUND PEAYSpecialist Four · January 7, 1968
From Kosciusko
- DWIGHT HODGESPrivate First Class · December 23, 1968
- FRANKLIN ZOLLICOFFERSpecialist Four · April 24, 1972
- PERCY GUY BROCK JRSergeant First Class · June 29, 1972
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.