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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dennis Michael Wobbe.

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DENNIS MICHAEL WOBBE

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

July 20, 1947 – July 13, 1968

Service record

Dennis Michael Wobbe, of Breese, Illinois, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on July 13, 1968, in Ba Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 52W · Line 24

Position of Panel 52W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aviation Structural Mech (Structures) (AMS)
Born
July 20, 1947
Home of record
Breese, Illinois (Clinton County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 13, 1968
Age
20
Province
Ba Xugen
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date July 13, 1968; five of them were lost in Ba Xugen Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 52W, Line 24

From Breese

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.