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ROBERT ALAN THOMPSON
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
April 25, 1947 – May 19, 1969
Service recordRobert Alan Thompson, of Downey, California, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 19, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 56
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
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- April 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Downey, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 19, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date May 19, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 56
- RANDALL ALAN MEESpecialist Four · May 19, 1969
- HOWARD MATHIS PETERSONSergeant · May 19, 1969
- DONALD FLOYD SCORSONESergeant · May 19, 1969
- DONALD ARTHUR TURSOCorporal · May 19, 1969
From Downey
- ROBERT RONALD BOHLERSpecialist Four · December 10, 1965
- FRED ALBERT TRYON JRPrivate First Class · December 18, 1965
- CLIFFORD LEROY WHIPPLELance Corporal · December 18, 1965
- WALTER L WONNACOTTPrivate First Class · December 28, 1966
- JON LAIRD MESSERSpecialist Four · May 2, 1967
- MICHAEL CHEROFFSpecialist Four · May 8, 1967
- DURAND GARFIELD LIGGETTPrivate First Class · May 8, 1967
- WAYNE CLARK HARMONCorporal · May 19, 1967
- CHARLES RUSSELL LAUERCorporal · June 18, 1967
- JAMES CURTIS HOUGHTONSpecialist Four · December 16, 1967
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.