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ROBERT COLQUITT PLEMMONS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
August 30, 1947 – March 12, 1968
Service recordRobert Colquitt Plemmons, of Huntsville, Texas, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 12, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 30
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
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 2 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- August 30, 1947
- Home of record
- Huntsville, Texas (Walker County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “2 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 44E, Line 30
- ROBERT WAYNE ODONNELLPrivate · March 12, 1968
- GARY WILLIAM PERKINSCaptain · March 12, 1968
- DONALD ROBERT ROBISONCaptain · March 12, 1968
- EDWARD FRANCIS ROGERSPrivate First Class · March 12, 1968
From Huntsville
- CLINTON RAY BROWNPrivate First Class · May 20, 1966
- DAVID GENE ISBELLFirst Lieutenant · February 14, 1968
- IVAN J CAMPBELLCaptain · November 22, 1968
- JOHN TERRELL WHITSONSergeant · February 19, 1969
- JOHN KENNETH SUBLETT JRCorporal · March 5, 1969
- JOHNNY MACK TINNEYCorporal · February 8, 1971
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.