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BOBBY RAY TRAPP
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 9, 1947 – June 18, 1968
Service recordBobby Ray Trapp, of Blair, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 18, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 29
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 9, 1947
- Home of record
- Blair, South Carolina (Fairfield County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 18, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1968; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 56W, Line 29
- CALVIN LEE TERRELLPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- CHARLES BLAKE THOMASLance Corporal · June 18, 1968
- EARL THOMASStaff Sergeant · June 18, 1968
- CHARLIE VANCE THOMPSONPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD LEE ALESHIREPrivate First Class · Panel 56W, Line 16
- RONALD KEITH GROOMSPrivate First Class · Panel 56W, Line 22
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.