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BOBBY COLLINS SUTHERLAND
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 1, 1947 – February 12, 1968
Service recordBobby Collins Sutherland, of Middleton, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 12, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 13
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- November 1, 1947
- Home of record
- Middleton, Georgia (Elbert County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 12, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date February 12, 1968; he was the only one lost in Darlac Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
He died in Darlac Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 39E, Line 13
- KALEY ALFRED SONNERSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
- LARRY KIETH SPANGLERCorporal · February 12, 1968
- ULYSSES STEWARTSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
- VICTOR MICHAEL STRIBLINGPrivate First Class · February 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES LEE COKERPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 3
- ELVESTER HESTER JRPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 6
- GEOVEL LOPEZ-GARCIACorporal · Panel 39E, Line 8
- JAMES PAUL VOJIRPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 14
- RICHARD EDWARD WAGNERSergeant · Panel 39E, Line 15
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.