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ROBERT D ORR KING
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 14, 1949 – January 12, 1968
Service recordRobert D Orr King, of Seattle, Washington, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 12, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 37
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 14, 1949
- Home of record
- Seattle, Washington (King County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 12, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date January 12, 1968; nine of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 37
- WILLIAM BAKER HUBBLECorporal · January 12, 1968
- LLOYD HENRY KENTSpecialist Four · January 12, 1968
- DAVID WARREN LEATHERBURYSpecialist Four · January 12, 1968
- EARL LONDONPrivate First Class · January 12, 1968
From Seattle
- RICHARD WEBB GEYERMajor · July 6, 1963
- HARRY ALLEN WALLINGSergeant · June 19, 1964
- WILLIAM ROBERT HAMLINSpecialist Five · December 8, 1964
- BERNARD WAYNE DIBBERTLieutenant Colonel · June 1, 1965
- MOON WAI LOCKSpecialist Four · June 28, 1965
- WALTER JOHN ZIMMERPrivate First Class · August 23, 1965
- ROBERT FRANKLIN BARBERLieutenant · September 18, 1965
- STEPHEN GOULD RICHARDSONLieutenant (junior grade) · November 30, 1965
- JACOB DRUMMOND LOGANLieutenant (junior grade) · December 2, 1965
- DANIEL JOHN GUILMETPrivate First Class · December 18, 1965
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.