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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 Leroy Robinson.

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LEROY ROBINSON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 14, 1944 – May 28, 1966

Service record

Leroy Robinson, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 28, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 114

Position of Panel 7E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
June 14, 1944
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 28, 1966
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 93 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 114

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.