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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Allen Harvey Robertson.

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ALLEN HARVEY ROBERTSON

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

October 6, 1948 – June 3, 1969

Service record

Allen Harvey Robertson, of Knoxville, Tennessee, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on June 3, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23W · Line 57

Position of Panel 23W 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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
October 6, 1948
Home of record
Knoxville, Tennessee (Knox County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 3, 1969
Age
20
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

56 names on the Wall carry the date June 3, 1969; five of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23W, Line 57

Same unit, same day

From Knoxville

All 76 names from Knoxville →

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.