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LAWRENCE STEPHEN ROBBINS
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
May 19, 1947 – May 20, 1966
Service recordLawrence Stephen Robbins, of Midwest City, Oklahoma, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 20, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 91
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B CO 3 ENG BN 3 MARDIV
- Born
- May 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Midwest City, Oklahoma (Oklahoma County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 20, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1966; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 7E, Line 91
- STANLEY INCILLO SAGONSpecialist Four · May 20, 1966
- PHILIP JOSEPH SERNACorporal · May 20, 1966
- OBIE CLYDE SIMMONSPrivate First Class · May 20, 1966
- GEORGE HENRY STAHL JRPrivate First Class · May 20, 1966
From Midwest City
- JAMES LARKIN EATMONPrivate First Class · April 22, 1966
- ALLEN PERDA MILLERSergeant · December 19, 1966
- HAL JONES ROWLETTMaster Sergeant · January 6, 1967
- DONALD LEE BERNARDPrivate First Class · April 26, 1967
- JOHN KIRBY JOHNSONPrivate First Class · August 2, 1967
- GAILEN CHEEK CROSSLINPrivate First Class · September 19, 1967
- GEORGE RALPH CASTILLOCorporal · January 24, 1968
- JAMES DALE GUFFEYSpecialist Four · March 6, 1968
- RANDALL LEE MCELREATHLance Corporal · March 12, 1968
- MICHAEL ROY FINERTYPrivate First Class · March 15, 1968
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.