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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 Dale Uhl.

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ROBERT DALE UHL

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

May 11, 1948 – March 1, 1971

Service record

Robert Dale Uhl, of San Mateo, California, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on March 1, 1971, in Cambodia, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4W · Line 15

Position of Panel 4W 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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
May 11, 1948
Home of record
San Mateo, California (San Mateo County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 1, 1971
Age
22
Country
Cambodia
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1971. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 31 of its members that month.

The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.

Also on Panel 4W, Line 15

Same unit, same day

From San Mateo

All 25 names from San Mateo →

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.