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BOBBY WILSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 27, 1948 – February 25, 1968
Service recordBobby Wilson, of Bloomington, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 25, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 33
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)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- April 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Bloomington, Indiana (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 25, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
96 names on the Wall carry the date February 25, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Ngãi 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.
Also on Panel 41E, Line 33
- ROBERT ARTHUR WIEDEMANCorporal · February 25, 1968
- FREDERICK THOMAS WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- JERRY LYNN WININGHAMPetty Officer First Class · February 25, 1968
- JAMES ANTHONY WOODLance Corporal · February 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DONNELL BELLPrivate · Panel 41E, Line 16
From Bloomington
- KENNETH LEE WALTERSSpecialist Four · May 2, 1967
- JAMES ARNOLD WORKMANSpecialist Four · May 18, 1967
- ALAN THOMAS READPrivate First Class · May 19, 1967
- EUGENE ALLEN PARISHPrivate First Class · October 15, 1967
- CHARLES PATRICK LIROTPrivate First Class · November 26, 1967
- WALTER MICHAEL SCOTTPrivate · February 11, 1968
- JERRY LABORN BOOKERSpecialist Four · April 22, 1968
- HARRY TILLMAN NIGGLELieutenant Colonel · February 5, 1969
- BRUCE WILLIAM SHAFFERWarrant Officer 1 · March 28, 1969
- ROGER WAYNE CUMMINGSPrivate First Class · April 20, 1969
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.