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ROBERT CARROLL HAWKINS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 1, 1948 – June 12, 1968
Service recordRobert Carroll Hawkins, of Clyde, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 12, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 32
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SVC BTRY 2 BN 32 ARTY II FF
- Born
- August 1, 1948
- Home of record
- Clyde, North Carolina (Haywood County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 12, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date June 12, 1968; five of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “SVC BTRY 2 BN 32 ARTY II FF”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 58W, Line 32
- DENTON JOSEPH HASDORFFSergeant · June 12, 1968
- JOHN LEE HOLMESPrivate First Class · June 12, 1968
- LARRY DON HUMPHREYSPrivate First Class · June 12, 1968
- CLIFFORD JENKINS JRSpecialist Four · June 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH RAYMOND MENGELPrivate First Class · Panel 57W, Line 2
From Clyde
- DAVID MICHAEL MCPHERSONSpecialist Five · January 14, 1967
- JOHN DOUGLAS WOODARDPetty Officer Third Class · April 4, 1968
- CHARLES CROCKETT MATTHEWSSergeant · August 13, 1969
- BENNY DOYCE GREENEStaff Sergeant · April 13, 1970
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.