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RODOLPH LEE NUNN JR
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Air Force
April 23, 1929 – June 6, 1968
Service recordRodolph Lee Nunn JR, of Kinston, North Carolina, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He died on June 6, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 59W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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Panel 59W · Line 10
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- April 23, 1929
- Home of record
- Kinston, North Carolina (Lenoir County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 6, 1968
- Age
- 39
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
106 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1968; 53 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 59W, Line 10
- MARVIN EDWARD MCLELLANDCorporal · June 6, 1968
- ZACK WILLIAM NAPIERSpecialist Five · June 6, 1968
- CECIL THOMAS OSCARCorporal · June 6, 1968
- GEORGE RICHARD PACKARDSpecialist Four · June 6, 1968
From Kinston
- JIMMIE LLOYD MCBYNUMStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1965
- CHARLES CURTIS WHITFIELDPrivate · February 24, 1966
- WOODROW WILSON HAM JRStaff Sergeant · March 4, 1966
- DANIEL H LAWLERSpecialist Five · May 20, 1967
- CURTIS RAY MCLAWHORNSergeant · July 22, 1967
- BOBBY LEE BARBERPrivate First Class · November 2, 1967
- CARL LEE HILL JRSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- SETH LEE WEST JRStaff Sergeant · April 16, 1968
- JOHNNY MILLERSpecialist Four · May 2, 1968
- DEMPSEY WOODROW PARROTTSpecialist Four · May 4, 1968
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.