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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 Walter Glenn Pope.

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WALTER GLENN POPE

Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy

May 27, 1933 – April 29, 1968

Service record

Walter Glenn Pope, of Carthage, Tennessee, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 29, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 53E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 53E · Line 6

Position of Panel 53E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Boatswain's Mate (BM)
Born
May 27, 1933
Home of record
Carthage, Tennessee (Smith County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 29, 1968
Age
34
Province
Kien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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55 names on the Wall carry the date April 29, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Carthage

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.