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ROBERT EARL MALONE
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
March 8, 1942 – April 15, 1968
Service recordRobert Earl Malone, of Seymour, Texas, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 15, 1968, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 4
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 8, 1942
- Home of record
- Seymour, Texas (Baylor County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 15, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date April 15, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Tuong Province that day. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 4
- ROBERT FRITSCHE JRSpecialist Four · April 15, 1968
- HOMER HOWARD HAWSCorporal · April 15, 1968
- JERRY WAYNE HEUERPrivate First Class · April 15, 1968
- RONALD LEE HOLTZHOUSERSergeant · April 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD LEE HOLTZHOUSERSergeant · Panel 50E, Line 4
From Seymour
- DWIGHT SANFORD HOWELLLance Corporal · August 5, 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.