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ROBERT EDWARD CALDWELL
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
April 23, 1947 – February 28, 1968
Service recordRobert Edward Caldwell, of Charlotte, North Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 28, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 60
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- April 23, 1947
- Home of record
- Charlotte, North Carolina (Mecklenburg County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 28, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1968; 29 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 41E, Line 60
- JAMES DOUGLAS CHAMBERSSpecialist Four · February 28, 1968
- MELVIN EUGENE CHLOUPEKPrivate First Class · February 28, 1968
- RONALD S H CHRISTMANLance Corporal · February 28, 1968
- KLAUS DIETER EGOLFSergeant · February 28, 1968
From Charlotte
- HARRY WILLIAM LOVE JRPrivate First Class · June 30, 1965
- EDWARD DEAN BROWN JRLieutenant (junior grade) · July 29, 1965
- TROY MILLER THOMPSON JRPrivate First Class · September 26, 1965
- REGINALD ALVIN WATKINSSergeant · November 15, 1965
- GERRALD AUNDRE STANSELLSergeant · February 8, 1966
- FREDDIE WALLACE GREENSergeant · February 19, 1966
- JOHNSON FRANCIS FRANKStaff Sergeant · February 26, 1966
- LOOMIS OGLESBY IIISpecialist Four · March 3, 1966
- ROBERT LEWIS DIALPrivate First Class · March 15, 1966
- RONALD MARTIN SUTTONCorporal · March 18, 1966
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.