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ROBERT ANDREW ONEIL
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
November 20, 1945 – April 7, 1967
Service recordRobert Andrew Oneil, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 7, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 118 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 118
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 20, 1945
- Home of record
- Allentown, Pennsylvania (Lehigh County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 7, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1967; eight of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 118
- CIPRIANO J PANTOJA JRPrivate First Class · April 7, 1967
- ROBERT VERNER PEARSONSpecialist Four · April 7, 1967
- JOHN RAY RHODEHAMEL IIPrivate First Class · April 7, 1967
- GERALD W WILSONSpecialist Five · April 7, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DAVID EUGENE GORRELLPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 116
- GERALD W WILSONSpecialist Five · Panel 17E, Line 118
From Allentown
- HUGH JOHN SULLIVAN JRSergeant · June 5, 1965
- ROBERT LEE HIRSTSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- PAUL WILLIAM JANDERSHOVITZSergeant First Class · December 25, 1965
- KENNETH RALPH HOLLENBACHLance Corporal · January 27, 1966
- GARY WILLIAM GARISSpecialist Four · February 22, 1966
- VICTOR EUGENE KUHNSPrivate First Class · October 2, 1966
- WILBUR THOMAS STAIRMajor · January 25, 1967
- PAUL CARLING HUNTERSpecialist Four · March 17, 1967
- GORDON EDWARD STOUDTLance Corporal · April 30, 1967
- DAVID PAUL OPLINGERSergeant · June 16, 1967
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.