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ROBERT PORTNER BREEDEN
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
March 27, 1945 – September 18, 1967
Service recordRobert Portner Breeden, of Raleigh, North Carolina, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 18, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 88
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 27, 1945
- Home of record
- Raleigh, North Carolina (Wake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 18, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date September 18, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. 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
On the Wall
Also on Panel 26E, Line 88
- BRADLEY JAMES CARSONPrivate First Class · September 18, 1967
- EDWARD STEPHEN DUFFETTLance Corporal · September 18, 1967
- RICHARD ANTHONY GIULIANILance Corporal · September 18, 1967
- KEITH RICHARD HENRICKSONSecond Lieutenant · September 18, 1967
From Raleigh
- WILLIAM EDWARD DAVIS JRSecond Lieutenant · December 10, 1965
- CHARLES EDWARD ALSTONPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- LEE ARTHUR MOORE JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- EDWARD SHEPHERDPlatoon Sergeant · May 21, 1966
- JOHN B DAVIS IIISpecialist Four · July 7, 1966
- WAYLAND DUNN JRSergeant · August 14, 1966
- LEON GORDON CHADWICK IIICaptain · November 14, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD OXLEYFirst Lieutenant · November 26, 1966
- SAMUEL ADAMS JAMES JRFirst Lieutenant · December 4, 1966
- DONALD FRANK RHODESPrivate · January 7, 1967
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.