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ROBERT LEROY CROSBY
Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy
December 24, 1943 – September 26, 1969
Service recordRobert Leroy Crosby, of South Hamilton, Massachusetts, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 26, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 9
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
- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1105)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- December 24, 1943
- Home of record
- South Hamilton, Massachusetts (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 26, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date September 26, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 9
- NORMAN KERMIT FORKCorporal · September 26, 1969
- RONALD MARCEL GOULETCaptain · September 26, 1969
- MICHAEL DAVID GUNNELSAirman First Class · September 26, 1969
- GREGORY JOHN HUGHESPrivate First Class · September 26, 1969
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.