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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert George Kerr.

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ROBERT GEORGE KERR

Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy

November 1, 1924 – March 10, 1967

Service record

Robert George Kerr, of Bremerton, Washington, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 10, 1967, in Ninh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 42. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 53

Position of Panel 16E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Url Pilot (1310)
Born
November 1, 1924
Home of record
Bremerton, Washington (Kitsap County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 10, 1967
Age
42
Province
Ninh Thuan
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1967; eight of them were lost in Ninh Thuan Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 53

From Bremerton

All 19 names from Bremerton →

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.