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ROBERT E MINO
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 21, 1945 – February 27, 1968
Service recordRobert E Mino, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 27, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 52
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- September 21, 1945
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 27, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1968; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
He died in Pleiku 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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 41E, Line 52
- RICHARD EUGENE GRIERPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- LOUIS HENRY MCFARLANDFirst Lieutenant · February 27, 1968
- EDWARD LEROY NIEBURPetty Officer Second Class · February 27, 1968
- FREDERICK J OCONNOR JRPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND O KENNEDYPrivate First Class · Panel 41E, Line 50
- FREDERICK J OCONNOR JRPrivate First Class · Panel 41E, Line 52
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.