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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 Anthony Wilfred Roybal.

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ANTHONY WILFRED ROYBAL

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

June 13, 1946 – May 21, 1967

Service record

Anthony Wilfred Roybal, of Trinidad, Colorado, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 21, 1967, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 78

Position of Panel 20E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
June 13, 1946
Home of record
Trinidad, Colorado (Las Animas County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 21, 1967
Age
20
Province
Long Khanh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date May 21, 1967; 17 of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 78

Same unit, same day

From Trinidad

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.