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ROBERT DENNIS MURPHY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 27, 1945 – May 14, 1968
Service recordRobert Dennis Murphy, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 14, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 60E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60E · Line 15
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- September 27, 1945
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 14, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1968; six of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 60E, Line 15
- DENNIS ELWOOD MCDONALDPrivate First Class · May 14, 1968
- JOSE MUNATONES JRCorporal · May 14, 1968
- GEORGE LINWOOD MUNDY JRSergeant · May 14, 1968
- ROGER DEAN STEPHENSPrivate First Class · May 14, 1968
Same unit, same day
- VESA JUHANI ALAKULPPICaptain · Panel 60E, Line 7
- ROBERT JOHN GROTHAUS IIPrivate First Class · Panel 60E, Line 11
- FRANCIS EUGENE JORDANPrivate First Class · Panel 60E, Line 12
- JAMES JOSEPH KLINESpecialist Four · Panel 60E, Line 13
- JAMES ROBERT RINGELSpecialist Four · Panel 60E, Line 16
- JAMES FRED TURNEYPrivate First Class · Panel 60E, Line 17
- WILLIAM HENRY ZEIGLERPrivate First Class · Panel 60E, Line 17
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.