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BOBBY RAY PORCHIA
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 28, 1948 – June 24, 1968
Service recordBobby Ray Porchia, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 24, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 30
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- March 28, 1948
- Home of record
- Pine Bluff, Arkansas (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 24, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date June 24, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 49 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 30
- CHARLES C PEDRICK IICorporal · June 24, 1968
- JESUS RAMON PEREZPrivate First Class · June 24, 1968
- RICHARD SHARON POHLColonel · June 24, 1968
- MICHAEL GUY THOMPSONCorporal · June 24, 1968
From Pine Bluff
- ROBERT DANEL OWEN JRSergeant First Class · June 24, 1966
- JESSE B STRIBLINGPrivate First Class · July 16, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD HILLPrivate First Class · May 2, 1967
- ROBERT ARTHUR SAUCIERAirman Second Class · July 1, 1967
- FREDRICK LAMAR THROWERTechnical Sergeant · September 4, 1967
- JOHN CHARLES HOUSECorporal · December 15, 1967
- WILLIE CHARLES TORRENCEPrivate First Class · February 10, 1968
- EDGAR LEE SIMMONSCorporal · April 3, 1968
- LARRY GENE CALHOUNSpecialist Four · May 18, 1968
- WILLIE LORENZO MORGAN JRSpecialist Four · June 2, 1968
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.