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JOHN FRANKLIN BOBB
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
October 9, 1943 – July 23, 1968
Service recordJohn Franklin Bobb, of Erlanger, Kentucky, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on July 23, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 51W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51W · Line 38
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 First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 9 ASLT DIV 91
- Born
- October 9, 1943
- Home of record
- Erlanger, Kentucky (Kenton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 23, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date July 23, 1968; four of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 9 ASLT DIV 91”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 51W, Line 38
- HARRY LEWIS BOYLESergeant First Class · July 23, 1968
- KENNETH ALLAN BUTLER JRSpecialist Four · July 23, 1968
- DOUGLAS DALE CHANEYFirst Lieutenant · July 23, 1968
- DANNY EUGENE DEESESpecialist Five · July 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DAVID ALLEN PEARSONFireman · Panel 51W, Line 43
From Erlanger
- GUY ECKMAN MCNAY JRSpecialist Four · May 19, 1967
- RODERICK LEE WEISSPrivate First Class · July 24, 1967
- WILLIAM JACKSON BREWER JRFirst Lieutenant · May 14, 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.