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ROBERT ALLEN MCALLISTER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 16, 1948 – August 18, 1968
Service recordRobert Allen McAllister, of Tinley Park, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 18, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 46
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Radio Operator (2531)
- Born
- July 16, 1948
- Home of record
- Tinley Park, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 18, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date August 18, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 46
- KEVIN JOSEPH MCARDLEPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
- LARRY DOUGLAS NELSONSpecialist Four · August 18, 1968
- MICHAEL JAMES ONEILLPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
- LEWIS WAYNE PAGEPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
From Tinley Park
- CHARLES JOHN RILEYLance Corporal · October 22, 1966
- CHARLES WILLIAM HOLLWEDELPrivate First Class · July 29, 1967
- GERALD CRAIG MILLERPrivate First Class · October 21, 1967
- ROGER LYNN MCRIGHTSpecialist Four · December 5, 1969
- EDWARD JAMES NOVAKPrivate First Class · August 22, 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.