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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 Joequin Robinson.

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JOEQUIN ROBINSON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 28, 1947 – September 5, 1969

Service record

Joequin Robinson, of Laurel, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 5, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18W · Line 43

Position of Panel 18W 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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
March 28, 1947
Home of record
Laurel, Mississippi (Jones County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 5, 1969
Age
22
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date September 5, 1969; six of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 18W, Line 43

Same unit, same day

From Laurel

All 15 names from Laurel →

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.