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Brooks, Robert Franklin, HA.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Owensboro, KY
Last Address Owensboro, KY
Casualty Date Jun 09, 1951
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Location Korea
Conflict Korean War
Location of Interment Rose Hill Cemetery - Owensboro, Kentucky
By ROBERT HOWE
I lived about a block from Bobby when we grew up in Owensboro. I went in the Navy in 1947 and he joined a few months later. We both were hospital corpsmen. He was a corpsman with the USMC when he was killed. He was killed a few weeks, June 1951 after he arrived in Korea. His body was sent home in November 1951.
By FRED N. BRYAN
Buddy. Robert and I went through Hos Corps school GL IL 1948.We were Hospital staff at US Nav Hos. Newport,RI.1948 to 1950.We pulled many a liberty together.I left for the 1st Mar div. wpns.-1-5 in July 1950.I last talked to him at the train station in Washington DC.in April 1951.He was going to the FMF Med School.I was going home on convalesent leave from Bethsda Nav Hos. I still have some old photos of our times in New Port RI.It Has been 50 years and I still think of him. Fred N Bryan
