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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Branch Glover.

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ROBERT BRANCH GLOVER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

July 25, 1944 – December 31, 1966

Service record

Robert Branch Glover, of Cullman, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 31, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13E · Line 105

Position of Panel 13E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Personnel Specialist (71H)
Unit (as recorded)
D CO 87 ENG BN 35 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
Born
July 25, 1944
Home of record
Cullman, Alabama (Cullman County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 31, 1966
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

13 names on the Wall carry the date December 31, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “D CO 87 ENG BN 35 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13E, Line 105

Same unit, same day

From Cullman

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.