Swanson, Robert Edwin
Marines Private 1st class

Robert Edwin Swanson, age 18, from Grand Forks County North Dakota.

Parents: Ted Swanson

Service era: Vietnam
Military history: Third Battalion, 3rd Regiment, Third Division

Date of death: Tuesday, October 26, 1965
Death details: He was wounded in Vietnam, evacuated to an Air Force hospital in the Philippines, where he died.

Source: National Archives, Grand Forks Herald (1965), Associated Press (1965)