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ROBERT LEO BABULA
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
March 7, 1947 – August 28, 1966
Service recordRobert Leo Babula, of Indiana, Pennsylvania, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was lost on August 28, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 52
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- K CO 3 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- March 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Indiana, Pennsylvania (Indiana County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- August 28, 1966
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date August 28, 1966; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “K CO 3 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 10E, Line 52
- MILTON LEE VAUGHANPrivate First Class · August 27, 1966
- JOHN ELMO WATSONPrivate First Class · August 27, 1966
- JOHN EUGEN BODENSCHATZ JRStaff Sergeant · August 28, 1966
- WILLIAM RUSSELL TAYLORCorporal · August 28, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JOHN EUGEN BODENSCHATZ JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 10E, Line 52
- ROBERT CURTIS BORTON JRGunnery Sergeant · Panel 10E, Line 53
- DENNIS RAY CARTERStaff Sergeant · Panel 10E, Line 53
From Indiana
- HAROLD ALAN PREISENDEFERFirst Lieutenant · October 21, 1965
- ROBERT EARL KLINEColonel · November 2, 1966
- RONALD LEE JOHNSTONFirst Lieutenant · March 12, 1967
- GARY WAYNE STERNLance Corporal · July 21, 1967
- JAMES FREDERICK BROWNPrivate First Class · November 25, 1967
- JOHN FRANCIS OLESNANIKCorporal · January 11, 1968
- WAYNE EUGENE LEWIS JRSpecialist Four · February 18, 1968
- TERRY LOUIS FYOCKSpecialist Four · June 3, 1968
- WALTER PAUL BEMPrivate First Class · April 30, 1969
- ANDREW ANTHONY HORCHAR JRPetty Officer Third Class · April 9, 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.