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ROBERT MICHAEL JACOB
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 26, 1948 – April 4, 1968
Service recordRobert Michael Jacob, of Bristol, Connecticut, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 4, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 5
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
- May 26, 1948
- Home of record
- Bristol, Connecticut (Hartford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 4, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date April 4, 1968; 25 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 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 48E, Line 5
- JAMES OWENS HOLLOWAY JRLance Corporal · April 4, 1968
- RAYMOND JUNIOR JOHNSONSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- WALTER CHAPMAN JONES IIICaptain · April 4, 1968
- DONALD BRIAN KEARNEYSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
From Bristol
- EDWARD JOHN CHRISTENSENPrivate · May 18, 1967
- ROLAND PHILLIP LEVESQUESergeant · February 22, 1968
- GILBERT THIBEAULTPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
- PHILIP FRANK NESTICOCorporal · June 2, 1968
- ALDO EUGENE RYDERPrivate First Class · June 4, 1968
- DAVID BRUCE EMONDSpecialist Five · July 5, 1968
- THOMAS JOSEPH BLANCHARDPrivate First Class · August 7, 1968
- MATTHEW M CANFIELD JRPrivate First Class · November 25, 1968
- DOUGLAS JAMES BEVERIDGESpecialist Four · February 9, 1969
- PETER PHILIP DUBIELPrivate First Class · May 12, 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.