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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 Restituto Poblete Adenir.

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RESTITUTO POBLETE ADENIR

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

September 2, 1939 – October 29, 1965

Service record

Restituto Poblete Adenir served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 29, 1965, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 4

Position of Panel 3E 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Steward's Mate (SD)
Born
September 2, 1939

Casualty

Date of death
October 29, 1965
Age
26
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date October 29, 1965; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 4

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.