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ROBERT JAMES COMSTOCK
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 22, 1945 – March 9, 1968
Service recordRobert James Comstock, of Lovilia, Iowa, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 9, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 66
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- May 22, 1945
- Home of record
- Lovilia, Iowa (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 9, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
He died in Định Tường Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 43E, Line 66
- ROBERT LEE CLEWLOWSergeant · March 9, 1968
- MAURICE ALAN COOPERPrivate First Class · March 9, 1968
- LONNIE JOE CRISMONHospitalman · March 9, 1968
- RICHARD DALE FEIROStaff Sergeant · March 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LEON MILTON PHILLIPSSergeant · Panel 43E, Line 68
- JOHN RENFIELD TWOREKPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 1
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.