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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jose Anton Robles-Miranda.

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JOSE ANTON ROBLES-MIRANDA

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 20, 1941 – March 20, 1967

Service record

Jose Anton Robles-Miranda, of Rochester, New York, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 20, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 126

Position of Panel 16E 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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
September 20, 1941
Home of record
Rochester, New York (Monroe County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 20, 1967
Age
25
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

48 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 120 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 126

Same unit, same day

From Rochester

All 107 names from Rochester →

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.