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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 Nicolas Staud.

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ROBERT NICOLAS STAUD

Seaman · U.S. Navy

October 23, 1946 – March 6, 1967

Service record

Robert Nicolas Staud, of Modesto, California, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 6, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 32

Position of Panel 16E 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
Seaman (SN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Seaman (SN)
Born
October 23, 1946
Home of record
Modesto, California (Stanislaus County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 6, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 32

From Modesto

All 31 names from Modesto →

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.