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ROBERT EDWARD PITTMAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 13, 1947 – September 28, 1966
Service recordRobert Edward Pittman, of Jacksonville, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He was lost on September 28, 1966, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 38
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Airborne Surveillance Radar Repairer (26M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 131 AVN CO
- Born
- February 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Jacksonville, Florida (Duval County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- September 28, 1966
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Presumed Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
- First reported
- Missing
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date September 28, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “131 AVN CO”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 28E, Line 38
- ANTHONY PEREZPrivate First Class · October 18, 1967
- ROBERT BRUCE PETERSENCorporal · October 18, 1967
- ALLEN JAYSON ROYLance Corporal · October 18, 1967
- MICHAEL JAMES SIGSBEEPrivate First Class · October 18, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JIMMY MAC BRASHERCaptain · Panel 28E, Line 33
From Jacksonville
- LOYE THOMAS CHRISTMASPrivate First Class · January 17, 1964
- WYLEY WRIGHT JRSpecialist Five · March 9, 1964
- OTIS GORDON JRMajor · November 19, 1964
- HORACE CLEVELAND COLLINSSpecialist Four · February 10, 1965
- JAMES HENRY KINGSergeant First Class · October 6, 1965
- RODNEY CARSWELL HARRISPrivate First Class · November 1, 1965
- HENRY TUCKER CANNONSergeant First Class · November 8, 1965
- NATHANIEL BYRDSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- WILLIE FRANK GODBOLDTSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- ALEXANDER WILLIAMSSergeant · November 15, 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.