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EDWARD LEE BOBO
Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 8, 1945 – August 21, 1967
Service recordEdward Lee Bobo, of Elaine, Arkansas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 21, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 22
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 8, 1945
- Home of record
- Elaine, Arkansas (Phillips County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 21, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date August 21, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 22
- FRED HORATIO GATES IILieutenant Commander · August 19, 1967
- ISIDRO BACAPrivate First Class · August 21, 1967
- JAMES LEONARD BOEHLERPrivate First Class · August 21, 1967
- JIMMY LEE BUCKLEYLieutenant Commander · August 21, 1967
- CLARENCE LAWRENCE CHASESpecialist Four · August 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- BAXTER FRENCH ERVINPrivate First Class · Panel 25E, Line 23
- THOMAS PETRAMALOSecond Lieutenant · Panel 25E, Line 25
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.