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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Earl Pugh.

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ROBERT EARL PUGH

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

February 21, 1946 – March 28, 1969

Service record

Robert Earl Pugh, of Little Rock, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 28, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28W · Line 74

Position of Panel 28W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
February 21, 1946
Home of record
Little Rock, Arkansas (Pulaski County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 28, 1969
Age
23
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

62 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1969; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 28W, Line 74

From Little Rock

All 57 names from Little Rock →

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.