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ROBERT LEE SCOTT
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 3, 1948 – January 26, 1968
Service recordRobert Lee Scott, of Houma, Louisiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 26, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 41
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Houma, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 26, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date January 26, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 35E, Line 41
- FRANCIS GERALD CORCORAN JRMaster Sergeant · December 9, 1967
- WILLIE RICHARD CAULTONLance Corporal · January 26, 1968
- LYLE WAYNE MORRISPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
- MAXIE LANE PRICESergeant · January 26, 1968
- PETER LENHART SILLERSecond Lieutenant · January 26, 1968
From Houma
- RAYMOND PATRICK FLYNNPrivate First Class · January 17, 1964
- ROY ANTHONY DUTHUPrivate First Class · January 29, 1966
- CALVIN RAYMOND HEBERT JRCorporal · February 22, 1966
- MILLER JOHN BOURGLance Corporal · June 25, 1966
- KENNETH CHARLES BOUDREAUXPrivate First Class · July 7, 1966
- WILTON PAUL LEBOUEFSpecialist Four · August 21, 1966
- SAMUEL ENNIS MURPHPrivate First Class · September 22, 1966
- ELDRIDGE MICHAEL BRUNETSpecialist Four · September 27, 1967
- RUDOLPH JOHN BILLIOTPrivate First Class · December 21, 1967
- ABRA JOSEPH WOLFE JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1968
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.