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ROBERT EARL POORE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 9, 1948 – January 28, 1969
Service recordRobert Earl Poore, of Ellisville, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 28, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · Line 9
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- September 9, 1948
- Home of record
- Ellisville, Mississippi (Jones County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 28, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date January 28, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 31 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33W, Line 9
- JESUS QUESADAPrivate First Class · January 28, 1969
- JOHN LOUIS REAGLECorporal · January 28, 1969
- DANIEL PATRICK ROSELance Corporal · January 28, 1969
- DARRON FREDERICK ZICCHINOSpecialist Four · January 28, 1969
From Ellisville
- CHARLES FRANKLIN WALLACEMajor · August 28, 1967
- SIM SMEDDLEY STEVERSONPlatoon Sergeant · December 13, 1967
- WILLIE CHARLES MCNAIRStaff Sergeant · December 19, 1967
- JOHN TERRY GRAYSpecialist Four · April 7, 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.