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ROBERT CARL TRIGG
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 27, 1932 – April 19, 1970
Service recordRobert Carl Trigg, of Radcliff, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 19, 1970, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11W · Line 26
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. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Food Service Supervisor (94Z)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- March 27, 1932
- Home of record
- Radcliff, Kentucky (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 19, 1970
- Age
- 38
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date April 19, 1970; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 11W, Line 26
- LEE ALLEN STEDMANCorporal · April 19, 1970
- FREDDIE THOMPSON JRPrivate First Class · April 19, 1970
- CLARENCE EDWARD UMSTOTSpecialist Four · April 19, 1970
- STANLEY WILENSKI JRSpecialist Four · April 19, 1970
From Radcliff
- HAROLD ALLEN ATCHERSpecialist Five · June 19, 1965
- WILLIAM GERALD BANEY JRSpecialist Five · April 23, 1968
- ROBERTO BRAGHINI JRSergeant First Class · June 25, 1968
- LOVELL FRANKLIN COENSergeant Major · April 30, 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.