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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 Kenneth Lovelace.

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ROBERT KENNETH LOVELACE

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

June 24, 1941 – February 9, 1966

Service record

Robert Kenneth Lovelace, of Taylor Mill, Kentucky, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 9, 1966, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 5E · Line 19

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
June 24, 1941
Home of record
Taylor Mill, Kentucky (Kenton County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 9, 1966
Age
24
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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12 names on the Wall carry the date February 9, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 5E, Line 19

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.