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ROBERT DWAIN ARNOLD
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 26, 1947 – April 18, 1966
Service recordRobert Dwain Arnold, of Galesville, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 18, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 120 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 120
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A BTRY 1 BN 11 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- July 26, 1947
- Home of record
- Galesville, Wisconsin (Trempealeau County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 18, 1966
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date April 18, 1966; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “A BTRY 1 BN 11 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 120
- WAYNE HULEN ROWLANDPrivate First Class · April 17, 1966
- GEORGE EDWARD RUTLEDGEStaff Sergeant · April 17, 1966
- LYNN LEROY SMITHCorporal · April 17, 1966
- WILLIAM LESLIE TROMPLieutenant Commander · April 17, 1966
Same unit, same day
- DANNY ARNOLD BOLINLance Corporal · Panel 6E, Line 121
From Galesville
- VERNON DUANE JACOBSPrivate First Class · March 17, 1969
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.