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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 Stephen Po Hubbard.

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ROBERT STEPHEN PO HUBBARD

Seaman · U.S. Navy

August 30, 1948 – May 8, 1968

Service record

Robert Stephen Po Hubbard, of St Joseph, Missouri, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 8, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 57E · Line 4

Position of Panel 57E 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
August 30, 1948
Home of record
St Joseph, Missouri (Buchanan County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 8, 1968
Age
19
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

78 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1968; nine of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 57E, Line 4

From St Joseph

All 27 names from St Joseph →

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.