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ROBERT DALE POPE
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
January 30, 1940 – March 26, 1968
Service recordRobert Dale Pope, of Coleman, Texas, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 40
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Ranger, Infantry Unit Commander (81542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- January 30, 1940
- Home of record
- Coleman, Texas (Coleman County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1968; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
He died in Định Tường 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 46E, Line 40
- PHILIP CRAIG BENNSecond Lieutenant · March 26, 1968
- LAWRENCE PAUL PENNELSpecialist Four · March 26, 1968
- ERNESTO SALVADOR PEREASpecialist Four · March 26, 1968
- GARY MARTIN REEDYSpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHNNY EDWARD GANTTSergeant · Panel 46E, Line 32
From Coleman
- DOUGLAS HOLTZ GRIFFINLance Corporal · February 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.