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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jimmie Lee Robinson.

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JIMMIE LEE ROBINSON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 4, 1946 – December 25, 1968

Service record

Jimmie Lee Robinson, of Eastover, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 25, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 36W · Line 76

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
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
Unit (as recorded)
94 ENG BN 34 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
Born
November 4, 1946
Home of record
Eastover, South Carolina (Richland County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 25, 1968
Age
22
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

Nine names on the Wall carry the date December 25, 1968; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 36W, Line 76

From Eastover

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.