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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Albert Fred Roberts.

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ALBERT FRED ROBERTS

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 29, 1932 – June 18, 1965

Service record

Albert Fred Roberts, of Miami, Florida, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 18, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 13

Position of Panel 2E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
February 29, 1932
Home of record
Miami, Florida (Dade County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 18, 1965
Age
33
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1965. In June 1965, 146 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 13

From Miami

All 179 names from Miami →

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.