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ROBERT ALLAN TURNER
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
March 26, 1944 – May 18, 1967
Service recordRobert Allan Turner, of Portland, Maine, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 18, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 38
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 Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- March 26, 1944
- Home of record
- Portland, Maine (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
94 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1967; 38 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 38
- OLIVER ARGYLE WARESergeant First Class · May 18, 1967
- WILLIAM WELLSPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- JOHN THOMAS WILSONPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- JAMES ARNOLD WORKMANSpecialist Four · May 18, 1967
From Portland
- LESTER EARL MACDONALDSergeant · June 8, 1966
- LAWRENCE WILLIAM SHAY JRLance Corporal · June 15, 1966
- JAMES M MCDONOUGH JRCaptain · August 2, 1966
- ROBERT GREGORY WILLIAMSONPrivate First Class · November 10, 1966
- PAUL LEWIS STIMPSONFirst Lieutenant · April 22, 1967
- HAROLD ELLSWORTH SOUTHARDPrivate First Class · June 24, 1967
- LAWRENCE LANOSpecialist Five · October 29, 1967
- STEPHEN JOHN WHIPPLEPrivate First Class · December 15, 1967
- EDWARD JOSEPH DARCYChief Master Sergeant · December 29, 1967
- NORMAN EDWARD COLOSANTIPrivate First Class · January 5, 1968
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.