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JAMES ROBBINS LEWIS JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 28, 1948 – December 7, 1968
Service recordJames Robbins Lewis JR, of Pinellas Park, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 7, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 57
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- July 28, 1948
- Home of record
- Pinellas Park, Florida (Pinellas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 7, 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
33 names on the Wall carry the date December 7, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 57
- KENNETH MILLERPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
- KENNETH WAYNE MOLTONCorporal · December 7, 1968
- LARRY JAMES OWENPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
- BERNARD RICHARD WOEHLCKEPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
From Pinellas Park
- VICTOR GENE SPRAYSpecialist Four · February 6, 1967
- RICHARD WALTER DIERSSergeant · November 20, 1968
- LONNIE PITTS NEWLANDPrivate First Class · November 1, 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.