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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 Joseph William Aubin.

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JOSEPH WILLIAM AUBIN

Chief Petty Officer · U.S. Navy

December 14, 1929 – May 26, 1966

Service record

Joseph William Aubin, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, served as a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 26, 1966, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9E · Line 12

Position of Panel 9E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Chief Petty Officer (ATC)
Born
December 14, 1929
Home of record
Bridgeport, Connecticut

Casualty

Date of death
May 26, 1966
Age
36
Added to the Wall
2012

Context · from the records

What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 9E, Line 12

From Bridgeport

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Source. This name was added to the Wall in 2012, after the 2008 Department of Defense casualty file used for most of this site was compiled. Panel, line and the details above are as listed for this name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.