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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Michael Klevenowski.

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ROBERT MICHAEL KLEVENOWSKI

Fireman · U.S. Navy

December 26, 1946 – December 25, 1966

Service record

Robert Michael Klevenowski, of Cleveland, Ohio, served as a Fireman in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 25, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13E · Line 79

Position of Panel 13E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Fireman (FN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Fireman (FN)
Born
December 26, 1946
Home of record
Cleveland, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 25, 1966
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date December 25, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 13E, Line 79

From Cleveland

All 250 names from Cleveland →

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.