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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Arnold Tillquist.

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ROBERT ARNOLD TILLQUIST

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

July 10, 1942 – November 4, 1965

Service record

Robert Arnold Tillquist, of New Haven, Connecticut, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 4, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 20

Position of Panel 3E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
July 10, 1942
Home of record
New Haven, Connecticut (New Haven County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 4, 1965
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date November 4, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 318 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 20

Same unit, same day

From New Haven

All 38 names from New Haven →

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.