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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 Raymond Foley JR.

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ROBERT RAYMOND FOLEY JR

Fireman · U.S. Navy

April 21, 1948 – November 11, 1968

Service record

Robert Raymond Foley JR, of Southboro, Massachusetts, served as a Fireman in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 11, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 39W · Line 48

Position of Panel 39W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Fireman (FN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Engineman (EN)
Born
April 21, 1948
Home of record
Southboro, Massachusetts (Worcester County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 11, 1968
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

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35 names on the Wall carry the date November 11, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 39W, Line 48

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.