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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Efrain Julio Robledo.

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EFRAIN JULIO ROBLEDO

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

February 27, 1947 – September 12, 1967

Service record

Efrain Julio Robledo, of Ft Worth, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 12, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26E · Line 63

Position of Panel 26E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Clerk-Typist (71B)
Unit (as recorded)
129 AVN CO 268 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
Born
February 27, 1947
Home of record
Ft Worth, Texas (Tarrant County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 12, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

30 names on the Wall carry the date September 12, 1967; nine of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “129 AVN CO 268 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 26E, Line 63

Same unit, same day

From Ft Worth

All 168 names from Ft Worth →

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.