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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Phillip Ray Doebert.

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PHILLIP RAY DOEBERT

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

April 21, 1950 – May 12, 1969

Service record

Phillip Ray Doebert, of De Soto, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25W · Line 66

Position of Panel 25W 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
April 21, 1950
Home of record
De Soto, Missouri (Jefferson County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 12, 1969
Age
19
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

170 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1969; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25W, Line 66

Same unit, same day

From De Soto

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.