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ROBERT EUGENE CONDON
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
July 2, 1934 – January 18, 1968
Service recordRobert Eugene Condon, of Lexington, Nebraska, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 18, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 67
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1100)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- July 2, 1934
- Home of record
- Lexington, Nebraska (Dawson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 18, 1968
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date January 18, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 67
- TYRONE BROWNPrivate First Class · January 18, 1968
- SAMUEL BRUCE JRPrivate First Class · January 18, 1968
- CARL RAYMOND DAVISPrivate First Class · January 18, 1968
- RONALD HAL DERENBURGERSergeant · January 18, 1968
From Lexington
- GARY CLARK HATFIELDSpecialist Four · March 20, 1967
- FLORENTINO CIPRIAN BARRONCorporal · May 18, 1967
- MERLIN GEORGE ORRFirst Lieutenant · May 8, 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.