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DANN JOSEPH LOBKER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 28, 1949 – April 4, 1969
Service recordDann Joseph Lobker, of Coral, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 4, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 11
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- January 28, 1949
- Home of record
- Coral, Michigan (Montcalm County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 4, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date April 4, 1969; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 11
- RONALD DEAN LAYTONFirst Lieutenant · April 4, 1969
- TERRILL MICHAEL LISLEPrivate First Class · April 4, 1969
- TEDDY CARL LOFTINSergeant · April 4, 1969
- KENNETH GENE MISNERPrivate First Class · April 4, 1969
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS WAYNE QUINNSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 12
- RALPH THOMAS SANDPrivate First Class · Panel 27W, Line 13
- HAYS CHARLES STEPHENSSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 13
From Coral
- MARK DURWOOD PONTIUSCorporal · May 31, 1970
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.