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ROBERT RAYMOND BRETT
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
January 3, 1936 – February 22, 1968
Service recordRobert Raymond Brett, of Washington, District of Columbia, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 22, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 58
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 (LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Chaplain Corps (4105)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HS CO 2 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- January 3, 1936
- Home of record
- Washington, District of Columbia (District Of Columbia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 22, 1968
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HS CO 2 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
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 40E, Line 58
- TERANCE M BOZARTHFirst Lieutenant · February 22, 1968
- WARREN RICHARD BROWNSpecialist Four · February 22, 1968
- DAVID JUDE CAVISSecond Lieutenant · February 22, 1968
- ALEXANDER SCHELEPH CHINPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
- RICHARD EARL TONEYSergeant · February 22, 1968
From Washington
- HOMER CLEO MCINTYRE JRCaptain · July 28, 1964
- JAMES MARTIN CALEStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- GEZA TEGLASSergeant · October 27, 1965
- LOUIS SHERRODSergeant · November 6, 1965
- LEROY HILLPlatoon Sergeant · November 8, 1965
- CALVIN BOUKNIGHTSpecialist Five · November 16, 1965
- PAUL EDWARD HURDLEStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- THEODORE M BEAMONSpecialist Four · November 23, 1965
- HARRY RONALD HOSKINSONSpecialist Four · December 13, 1965
- WILLIE MITCHELL JRAirman First Class · December 20, 1965
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.