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ROBERT EVERETT ASH
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
June 26, 1948 – July 9, 1968
Service recordRobert Everett Ash, of Pleasure Ridge Park, Kentucky, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on July 9, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52W · Line 3
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
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- June 26, 1948
- Home of record
- Pleasure Ridge Park, Kentucky (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 9, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date July 9, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52W, Line 3
- MANUEL V ARENAS JRPrivate First Class · July 9, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH AVELLAPrivate First Class · July 9, 1968
- JAMES WILLIAM CARRSergeant · July 9, 1968
- EDWARD W WASHINGTON JRSpecialist Four · July 9, 1968
From Pleasure Ridge Park
- KENNETH LEN SHUFFITTSpecialist Four · January 12, 1967
- JAMES ELDRIE MILLIGANPrivate First Class · August 15, 1967
- GARY HOLDEN SMITHLance Corporal · October 9, 1968
- LEON ANDREW HUNTStaff Sergeant · June 18, 1972
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.