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ROBERT CARL HARTLEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 10, 1949 – July 18, 1968
Service recordRobert Carl Hartley, of Findlay, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 18, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 51W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51W · Line 5
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- February 10, 1949
- Home of record
- Findlay, Ohio (Hancock County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 18, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date July 18, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 51W, Line 5
- WILLIAM EARNEST BEALL JRPrivate First Class · July 18, 1968
- RAYMOND CONRAD HANIKPrivate First Class · July 18, 1968
- JAMES WALDEN HARRIS JRSpecialist Four · July 18, 1968
- JAMES GEORGE HILDEBRANDTStaff Sergeant · July 18, 1968
From Findlay
- JOHN PETER BARTLEYCaptain · February 3, 1963
- SAMUEL THEODORE BAKERPrivate First Class · October 19, 1965
- JAMES LEE TWEEDSergeant · September 9, 1967
- MICHAEL JOHN KELLYPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
- EMERSON PAUL COLESergeant · March 28, 1968
- BARRY DAVID LORDPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
- ROBERT LINLEY GARDNERTechnical Sergeant · July 30, 1968
- TIMOTHY HOWARD WEAKSPrivate First Class · November 4, 1968
- JOSEPH EDWARD STRAWBRIDGESpecialist Four · December 29, 1968
- THOMAS ELDEN ROSESpecialist Four · July 19, 1969
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.