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DONALD REED ROBERTSON
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
October 12, 1945 – March 26, 1969
Service recordDonald Reed Robertson, of Roanoke, Virginia, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 26, 1969, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 51
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
- Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- October 12, 1945
- Home of record
- Roanoke, Virginia (Roanoke (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1969; two of them were lost in Kien Tuong Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 51
- LEONARD JOHN HALLSergeant · March 26, 1969
- CLAUDE JAMES OWENSPrivate First Class · March 26, 1969
- J C REELPrivate First Class · March 26, 1969
- DONALD JOSEPH RICHTERCorporal · March 26, 1969
Same unit, same day
- NICHOLAS CANCILLAPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 28W, Line 44
From Roanoke
- LAWRENCE EARL HACKLEYCaptain · July 18, 1963
- MARSHALL JOSEPH ANGELLSpecialist Five · December 12, 1963
- LUTHER WILLIAM BURTONSergeant · November 1, 1965
- CLYDE RUSSEL HERMANSpecialist Four · November 6, 1965
- JOSEPH WHELTON BROWN IIICorporal · April 13, 1966
- JOHN ALPHONZO BROWNStaff Sergeant · May 4, 1966
- JAMES R MCILWEEPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- PAUL MARTIN REEDCorporal · August 23, 1966
- JOHN TYLER LOGANSergeant · September 30, 1966
- JOHNNY WAYNE WRIGHTSpecialist Four · October 24, 1966
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.