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R D SULLIVAN
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
December 19, 1925 – August 21, 1968
Service recordR D Sullivan, of Centerville, Tennessee, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 21, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 42. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 23
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 11 ASLT DIV 11
- Born
- December 19, 1925
- Home of record
- Centerville, Tennessee (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 21, 1968
- Age
- 42
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date August 21, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 11 ASLT DIV 11”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 23
- RICHARD EUGENE SMITHPrivate First Class · August 21, 1968
- EDWIN CHARLES SONNICHSENSergeant · August 21, 1968
- WALTER CHARLES STEELESpecialist Five · August 21, 1968
- DELBERT RAY STOGSDILLPrivate First Class · August 21, 1968
From Centerville
- PAUL M BELLPrivate First Class · January 25, 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.