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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Robinson.

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GEORGE ROBINSON

Sergeant · U.S. Army

October 21, 1946 – April 25, 1969

Service record

George Robinson, of Elkton, Maryland, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 25, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26W · Line 50

Position of Panel 26W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Multichannel Transmission Systems (31M)
Unit (as recorded)
1 FIELD FORCE
Born
October 21, 1946
Home of record
Elkton, Maryland (Cecil County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 25, 1969
Age
22
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

49 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1969; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 26W, Line 50

Same unit, same day

From Elkton

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.