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ROBERT LAWRENCE BLAIS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
May 26, 1946 – January 31, 1969
Service recordRobert Lawrence Blais, of Revere, Massachusetts, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 31, 1969, in Vinh Binh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · Line 24
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
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineman (EN)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- May 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Revere, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Vinh Binh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1969; he was the only one lost in Vinh Binh Province that day. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33W, Line 24
- RALPH LEIGH BLAUVELTPrivate First Class · January 31, 1969
- DAVID EVERETT BROOKINSPrivate First Class · January 31, 1969
- BOYCE DALE BURGETTPrivate First Class · January 31, 1969
- HILDEFONSO M RAMIREZCorporal · January 31, 1969
From Revere
- ALAN JOSEPH OBRIENFirst Lieutenant · September 17, 1966
- ARTHUR RUSSELL LEGROW JRFirst Lieutenant · January 14, 1967
- STEPHEN JOSEPH PENTAPetty Officer Third Class · August 12, 1969
- WALTER STANLEY OLINSKY JRWarrant Officer 1 · September 16, 1969
- JAMES LOVES DELMONTSergeant Major · June 10, 1970
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.