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DENNIS TRUMAN ROBBINS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 26, 1949 – August 26, 1968
Service recordDennis Truman Robbins, of Benton, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 26, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · 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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 26, 1949
- Home of record
- Benton, Arkansas (Saline County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 26, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date August 26, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 33
- TEODORITO RIOS-ROSARIOSergeant · August 26, 1968
- FERNANDO A RIVERA JRPrivate First Class · August 26, 1968
- JAMES LEE SCHIBILance Corporal · August 26, 1968
- VERNON LEE YARBERLance Corporal · August 26, 1968
From Benton
- DELMAR LEE CROCKETT JRSergeant · February 18, 1967
- CARIO FULLERCorporal · April 9, 1967
- JOHN NORMAN WICKLIFFESergeant First Class · August 3, 1967
- THOMAS LEE HOOVERFirst Lieutenant · September 27, 1967
- JOHN H HARDINGSpecialist Four · October 8, 1967
- GREGORY KEITH REEVESPrivate First Class · July 7, 1968
- CARL WAYNE HILLPrivate First Class · February 25, 1969
- JERRY DALE CANTRELLPrivate First Class · July 30, 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.