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HORACE VALLEY ROBINSON JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 4, 1948 – November 20, 1968
Service recordHorace Valley Robinson JR, of Blytheville, Arkansas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 20, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 21
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Blytheville, Arkansas (Mississippi County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 20, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date November 20, 1968; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 40 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 21
- THOMAS PAUL SCHWABSpecialist Four · November 20, 1968
- JIMMY LEE SHIELDSPrivate First Class · November 20, 1968
- PAUL WINTHROP SMITHSONSecond Lieutenant · November 20, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD STONECorporal · November 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- TERRY W CLIFTONSpecialist Four · Panel 38W, Line 15
- ALBERT D CONTREROS JRSergeant · Panel 38W, Line 16
- ARTHUR J HERINGHAUSEN JRSpecialist Four · Panel 38W, Line 18
- GARY DON PAGANSergeant · Panel 38W, Line 19
- MICHAEL DEAN REIFFSergeant · Panel 38W, Line 20
From Blytheville
- CHARLES F KENNEDYSergeant · March 7, 1967
- FREDDIE LYNN FRIARPrivate First Class · March 9, 1967
- WILLIE B BRADFORDSpecialist Four · March 9, 1968
- BURNELL WILLIAMS JRSpecialist Four · April 20, 1968
- ROBERT EARL GRANTCorporal · March 8, 1969
- WILLIAM HENRY BROWNLance Corporal · March 11, 1969
- LARRY MILTON KELLEYSergeant · April 7, 1969
- MARVIN EARL BELLStaff Sergeant · June 30, 1970
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.