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ROBERT ALAN DESROCHERS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 14, 1948 – November 19, 1968
Service recordRobert Alan Desrochers, of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 19, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 10
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- March 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Dartmouth, Massachusetts (Bristol County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 19, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date November 19, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 38W, Line 10
- LEWIS RODNEY CAINPrivate First Class · November 19, 1968
- YALE REZIN DAVIS JRMajor · November 19, 1968
- JERRY EUGENE DOROUGHSpecialist Four · November 19, 1968
- CALVIN FIELDERStaff Sergeant · November 19, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND STANLEY REEVES JRSergeant · Panel 38W, Line 12
From Dartmouth
- GARY MARTIN COHENPrivate · March 11, 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.