07/24/98 11:53
Sp/5 Robert Earl Dew
Killed in Action
Pictures Courtesy of
Doris Dew
(click on pictures for larger versions)
If anyone has any more information about Bobby
or If you knew him
please contact either:
Doris Dew at:
djdew@mindspring.com
or Ken Dew at:
KENDEW@aol.com
New Information
courtesy of Otis Slusher
ojfwb@webtv.net
Dear Mr. Slusher:
This is in response to your electronic mail request of January 20, 1998. You requested information from the available casualty records for SGT Robert Earl Dew, a casualty of the Vietnam conflict.
Computerized records on casualties from the Vietnam conflict have been transferred to the National Archives from the Office of the Secretary of Defense. One of the databases in the Center for Electronic Records is known as the [Southeast Asia] Combat Area Casualties Current File (CACCF). Records are current as of November 1996. This is the most recent version of the CACCF currently processed into our holdings. This file includes final records for persons who died as a result of a hostile or non-hostile occurrence in the Southeast Asia Combat Area, including those who died while missing or captured. In response to your request, following is information from the full, final record of SGT Dew from the CACCF.
The Center for Electronic Records also has custody of a database that was transferred to the National Archives from the [U.S. Army] Adjutants General's Center (TAGCEN). The database was intended to incorporate information on casualties (deaths and wounds) suffered by U.S. Army personnel and their dependents, worldwide, during the period 1961-81. We also include information from the record for SGT Dew.
For further information about the military career of SGT Dew, you may consider obtaining a copy of his military personnel files. Submit a *Request Pertaining to Military Records* (SF-180) to the National Military Personnel Records Center, 9700 Page Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63132. Please let me know whether you would like me to send you a copy of this form and/or copies of the printout pages with the CACCF and TAGCEN records for SGT Dew.
I hope this information is useful.
Ted Hull
Center for Electronic Records
National Archives and Records Administration
(301) 713-6645, ext. 253
COMBAT AREA CASUALTIES CURRENT FILE, AS OF NOVEMBER 1996 (CACCF)
Military Service: A (U.S. Army)
Country of Casualty: VS (South Vietnam)
Type of Casualty: A1 (Hostile, Killed)
Reference Number: 28215
Name: Robert Earl Dew
Date record processed: 7008 (August 1970)
Social Security or Service Number: 237804455
Military Grade: SGT (Sergeant)
Pay Grade: E4
Date of Death or Declaration of Death (MM/DD/YY): 08/30/70
Home of Record - City/Town: Raeford
Home of Record - State: 27 (North Carolina)
Service Occupational Code: 05H20 (Code Not Included in available documentation)
Date of Birth: 11/11/48
Reason: I (Misadventure)
Aircraft or Not Aircraft: 7 (Ground Casualty)
Race: C (Caucasian)
Religion: 08 (Baptist-Southern)
Length of Service in Years: * (Less than One Year)
Marital Status: S (Single)
Sex: M (Male)
Citizen Code: 1 (Citizen)
Posthumous Promotion: 1 (Yes)
Date Tour in South East Asia Began (YY/MM/DD): 69/07/07
Last Record Code: Final Record
Body Recovered or Not Recovered: * (Body Recovered)
Age at Time of Casualty (Declaration of Death): 21
Component: R (Regular)
Province: 11 (Khanh Hoa)
Casualty Information System (TAGCEN), 1961-1981
Country of Casualty: VS (South Vietnam)
Category of Casualty: K (Battle Dead)
Service Number: 237804455
Name: Dew, Robert E.
Category of Personnel: A (Active Duty Army)
Grade: SP4 (Specialist 4)
Military classification: E (Enlisted)
Current Casualty Status: 11 (Hostile-Dead, Killed)
Previous Status: 00 (No Previous Report)
Major Attributing Cause: H (No Booby Trap - None ofthe Above)
Complimentary Cause: D (Rocket, Missile, Torpedo)
Vehicle Type: blank
Vehicle Position: blank
Vehicle Owner: blank
Date of Death/Declared Dead (YY/MM/DD): 70/08/30
Report Processed (YY/MM/DD): 70/09/03
Province: 11 (Khanh Hoa)
Grid Coordinate: blank
Component: R (Regular)
Military Occupational Specialty: 05H20 (Code Not Included in Available documentation)
Source of Commission: blank
Sex/Marital Status: B (Male Single)
Posthumous Promotion: blank
Race: C (Caucasian)
Religion: 06 (Baptist American B.C.)
Home Town: blank
Home State of Record: blank
Date of Birth: 48 (1948)
Major Organization: UV (USARV)
Date Tour Commenced: 6907 (July 1969)
Previous Master Casualty Country: blank
Previous Master Casualty Group: blank
--- General / Personal ---
Last name: DEW
First name: ROBERT EARL
Home of Record (official): RAEFORD
State (official): NC
Date of Birth: Thursday, November 11, 1948
Sex: Male
Race: Caucasian
Marital Status: Single
--- Military ---
Branch: Army
Rank: SGT
Serial Number: 237804455
Component: Regular
Posthumous promotion as indicated
Pay grade: E4
MOS (Military Occupational Specialty code): 05H20
--- Action ---
Start of Tour: Monday, July 7, 1969
Date of Casualty: Sunday, August 30, 1970
Age at time of loss: 21
Casualty type: (A1) Hostile, died
Reason: Enemy Fire (Ground casualty)
Country: South VietNam
Province: Khanh Hoa
The Wall: Panel 07W - Row 024
LASTNAME: DEW FIRSTNAME: PAUL ROBERT IDNO: 16940473 SVC: A COMP: R
RANK: SP4 GRADE: E4 MOS: 67N20 AGE: 20 HOME: DETROIT ST: MI CASDATE:
19690116 CAS1: C1 CAS2: B CAS3: 5 BODY: --- CTRY: VS PROV: 23 LSVC: 01 BIRDATE:
19480525 RACE: C REL: RC MAR: S SEX: M CIT: 1 TOURD: 680720 PANL: 34W LINE: 014
REFNO: 3221 PDATE: 6901
From Tony Lopez:
Basic was at Ft. Leonard Wood from Sep. thru Oct. '69 and then
on to 'ditty bopper' school at Ft. Devens. I was with the 330th RRC
in Nha Trang from Jun. '70 thru Jun. '71. Some of the O5H gang at
Nha Trang were Charlie Eads, Jim Morehead, Phil Baker, Phil Johnson,
Wayne Tilbrook, Bernie Tomassetti, and George Pilling. We were there
when Bob Dew was killed and five or six NG's were wounded. Can't
belive that they list his casualty as 'misadventure - possibly
friendly fire' - I still have a piece of the 107 shrapnel to prove it
wasn't 'friendly'!!
Tony Lopez 330th RRC, Pleiku
SP/5
'The Taco Kid'
