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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Herman Francis Rubin.

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HERMAN FRANCIS RUBIN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 29, 1948 – December 11, 1968

Service record

Herman Francis Rubin, of Pine Island, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 11, 1968, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 36W · Line 6

Position of Panel 36W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Supplyman (76A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
December 29, 1948
Home of record
Pine Island, Minnesota (Goodhue County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 11, 1968
Age
19
Province
Lam Dong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

47 names on the Wall carry the date December 11, 1968; nine of them were lost in Lam Dong Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 103 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 36W, Line 6

Same unit, same day

From Pine Island

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.