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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 Joseph Arnold.

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ROBERT JOSEPH ARNOLD

Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy

February 13, 1945 – September 15, 1969

Service record

Robert Joseph Arnold, of North Madison, Ohio, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 15, 1969, in Kien Giang Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 18W · Line 88

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aviation Electronics Technician (AT)
Born
February 13, 1945
Home of record
North Madison, Ohio (Lake County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 15, 1969
Age
24
Province
Kien Giang
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

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21 names on the Wall carry the date September 15, 1969; two of them were lost in Kien Giang Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 18W, Line 88

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.