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LUCIEN ROBINSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 5, 1943 – February 21, 1968
Service recordLucien Robinson, of Johns Island, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 21, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 55
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- July 5, 1943
- Home of record
- Johns Island, South Carolina (Charleston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 21, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date February 21, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 140 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 55
- ROY RAY ROBINSONSpecialist Five · February 21, 1968
- WALTER ROBINSONCorporal · February 21, 1968
- ROBERT JOHN ROSENWALDPrivate First Class · February 21, 1968
- WILLIAM ALLEN ROZZICorporal · February 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- PAUL DELL HERSCHBACHSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 52
- JOSEPH HUDSON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 53
From Johns Island
- ISIAH SIMMONSCaptain · August 24, 1968
- HARRISON WINE JRPrivate First Class · March 11, 1969
- JOSEPH WILLIAM COXCaptain · September 12, 1969
- ROBERT DAVID WALDENCaptain · March 15, 1970
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.