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ALBERT C ROBERTS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 4, 1935 – February 28, 1966
Service recordAlbert C Roberts, of Lawton, Oklahoma, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 28, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 90 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 90
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- January 4, 1935
- Home of record
- Lawton, Oklahoma (Comanche County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 28, 1966
- Age
- 31
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5E, Line 90
- JAMES GEORGE PATZWALLSecond Lieutenant · February 28, 1966
- ARTHUR CLIFFORD PEDERSONLance Corporal · February 28, 1966
- MICHAEL DENNIS PLISKAPrivate First Class · February 28, 1966
- DARRELL THOMAS RAYPrivate First Class · February 28, 1966
Same unit, same day
- CURTIS J MCGEEStaff Sergeant · Panel 5E, Line 88
- LESTER A ROGERSFirst Lieutenant · Panel 5E, Line 91
- CLARK NEWELL WOODWORTH JRCaptain · Panel 5E, Line 92
From Lawton
- ARNOLD DEAN KNIFFINMajor · June 1, 1964
- CLYDE DAVID TAYLORFirst Lieutenant · January 5, 1966
- GARY WILLIAM EMMETTSergeant First Class · March 5, 1966
- WILFRED ALCIDE DOIRONPlatoon Sergeant · June 22, 1966
- RUSSELL EUGENE PESEWONITPrivate First Class · July 22, 1966
- HULSA D WOLFEStaff Sergeant · May 13, 1967
- LAWRENCE RAY LASITERStaff Sergeant · June 19, 1967
- DOUGLAS WAYNE HILLPrivate First Class · July 21, 1967
- JOHN DAVID MERRIMANSecond Lieutenant · August 31, 1967
- CLIVE LEROY EVANSCorporal · September 4, 1967
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.