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JAMES DELANO ROBINSON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 9, 1948 – December 2, 1968
Service recordJames Delano Robinson, of Kannapolis, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 2, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 24
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- June 9, 1948
- Home of record
- Kannapolis, North Carolina (Cabarrus County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 2, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date December 2, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Read the history
Also on Panel 37W, Line 24
- JAMES ROBERT REESEFirst Lieutenant · December 2, 1968
- JOSEPH LESTER RINEHARTCorporal · December 2, 1968
- THOMAS W ROWLANDPrivate First Class · December 2, 1968
- PATRICK SALAZARLance Corporal · December 2, 1968
From Kannapolis
- JOHN CORNELIUS DUNLAPLance Corporal · April 9, 1967
- JIMMY RICHARD COXLance Corporal · May 14, 1968
- JOHN TERRY MCINNISPrivate First Class · September 14, 1968
- HAROLD REED RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · February 4, 1969
- RAYMOND ERVIN BAUMGARNERStaff Sergeant · March 14, 1969
- LARRY WAYNE WATKINSSpecialist Four · May 9, 1969
- ROBERT LEE HAGER JRCorporal · September 22, 1969
- DONALD MONROE SHUESergeant First Class · November 3, 1969
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.