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LESTER WAYNE ROBBINS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 18, 1946 – February 19, 1967
Service recordLester Wayne Robbins, of Laurinburg, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 19, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 64
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 18, 1946
- Home of record
- Laurinburg, North Carolina (Scotland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 19, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date February 19, 1967. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 15E, Line 64
- GERALD WILLIAM GANNONPrivate First Class · February 19, 1967
- HAROLD STANLEY WILSONSpecialist Four · February 19, 1967
- JOHNIE J WRIGHT JRMajor · February 19, 1967
- LARRY B WYNNEPrivate · February 19, 1967
From Laurinburg
- WASH JUNIOR LINDSAYPrivate First Class · July 18, 1967
- DONALD RAY YARBOROCorporal · January 24, 1970
- JAMES ERWIN TAYLORCorporal · July 26, 1970
- WILSON CAMPBELLCorporal · September 10, 1970
- JAMES MCDUFFIE JRCorporal · October 1, 1970
- HAROLD CLIFTON MARSHStaff Sergeant · October 19, 1970
- HARVEY WAYNE WRIGHTSpecialist Four · March 6, 1971
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.