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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 French Starbuck.

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ROBERT FRENCH STARBUCK

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

July 17, 1941 – February 4, 1967

Service record

Robert French Starbuck, of Montgomery, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 4, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 121 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 121

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
Unit (as recorded)
B CO 3 RECON BN 3 MARDIV
Born
July 17, 1941
Home of record
Montgomery, New York (Orange County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 4, 1967
Age
25
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date February 4, 1967; five of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 121

From Montgomery

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.