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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Marion C Robb.

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MARION C ROBB

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 8, 1944 – September 11, 1969

Service record

Marion C Robb, of Cedar City, Utah, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 11, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18W · Line 71

Position of Panel 18W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Military Police (95B)
Born
August 8, 1944
Home of record
Cedar City, Utah (Iron County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 11, 1969
Age
25
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date September 11, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 18W, Line 71

From Cedar City

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.