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Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965.
Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Lee Womack.

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ROBERT LEE WOMACK

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

January 18, 1930 – October 11, 1965

Service record

Robert Lee Womack, of Shreveport, Louisiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 11, 1965, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 119 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 119

Position of Panel 2E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Supply Man, Manual Account (3071)
Born
January 18, 1930
Home of record
Shreveport, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
October 11, 1965
Age
35
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

Seven names on the Wall carry the date October 11, 1965; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 119

From Shreveport

All 54 names from Shreveport →

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.