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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Bernard Robinson.

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GEORGE BERNARD ROBINSON

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

October 1, 1950 – April 13, 1970

Service record

George Bernard Robinson, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 13, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11W · Line 2

Position of Panel 11W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
October 1, 1950
Home of record
Tulsa, Oklahoma (Tulsa County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 13, 1970
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date April 13, 1970; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 11W, Line 2

From Tulsa

All 109 names from Tulsa →

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.