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ROBERT CHESTER TURNBULL
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
March 29, 1946 – February 7, 1968
Service recordRobert Chester Turnbull, of Andover, New Jersey, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 7, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 17
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- March 29, 1946
- Home of record
- Andover, New Jersey (Sussex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 7, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
136 names on the Wall carry the date February 7, 1968; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 125 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 17
- DONALD GLENN TUYESLance Corporal · February 7, 1968
- ALFRED URDIALES JRPrivate First Class · February 7, 1968
- RICHARD MARTIN VASKOPrivate First Class · February 7, 1968
- JAMES LEONARD WALLERLance Corporal · February 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- VICTOR CARL NORDSTROMSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 9
- ROBERT HARRY SODENSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 15
- ARTHUR ALLYN STEPHENSSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 15
From Andover
- FREDERICK EUGENE LOVESpecialist Four · April 6, 1968
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.