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ROBERT FRANKLIN RIGGLE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
December 15, 1932 – September 1, 1968
Service recordRobert Franklin Riggle, of Flatwoods, Kentucky, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on September 1, 1968, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 22
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- December 15, 1932
- Home of record
- Flatwoods, Kentucky (Greenup County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 1, 1968
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date September 1, 1968; two of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 22
- ANGEL LUIS REYES JRCorporal · September 1, 1968
- ROBERT LEE ROSSLance Corporal · September 1, 1968
- JAMES J SHAUGHNESSY JRPrivate · September 1, 1968
- ROGER LYNN SHREWSBERRYCorporal · September 1, 1968
From Flatwoods
- CARLOS WAYNE CORNETTSpecialist Four · May 9, 1968
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.