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ROBERT ERIC BELT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 15, 1948 – May 14, 1969
Service recordRobert Eric Belt, of Houston, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 14, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 2
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
- January 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Houston, Texas (Harris County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 14, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
69 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1969; ten of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 178 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Hamburger Hill was under way. On Đồng Ấp Bia (Hill 937) in the A Shau Valley (10–20 May 1969), the 101st Airborne Division attacked entrenched North Vietnamese troops for ten days; the soldiers called it “Hamburger Hill.” The heavy losses fed the debate at home over the war’s tactics. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 24W, Line 2
- DAVID BRUNERSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
- THOMAS EDWARD BUMGARNERStaff Sergeant · May 14, 1969
- DAVIS CARROLL BUTCHERStaff Sergeant · May 14, 1969
- LEONARD BALDOMIR CASTILLOSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
Same unit, same day
- LEONARD BALDOMIR CASTILLOSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 2
- WILLIE JAMES CHAPMANSergeant · Panel 24W, Line 3
- RAYMOND WARREN DEMEOLASergeant · Panel 24W, Line 4
- WILLARD J DUFRESNE JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 24W, Line 4
- MICHAEL ALAN HUNTLEYSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 7
- MICHAEL WAYNE MILNERCorporal · Panel 24W, Line 8
- LESLIE LEROY MCCORKLECorporal · Panel 24W, Line 9
- WILLIAM LEWIS MCGOWANSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 9
- LUTHER MORGAN JRSergeant · Panel 24W, Line 9
- DAVID ALAN STIYERSpecialist Five · Panel 24W, Line 13
From Houston
- JOSEPH MICHAEL FAHEY JRCaptain · February 11, 1962
- JOHN F SHAUGHNESSY JRCaptain · February 3, 1963
- RICHARD DALE HILLAirman Second Class · December 6, 1963
- HUGHIE DARELL ADAMSMajor · January 7, 1964
- ALBERT LAWRENCE SHIMEKPrivate First Class · April 10, 1964
- BYRON CLARK STONECaptain · August 20, 1964
- JAMES EDWARD HAVEMANNWarrant Officer 1 · October 7, 1964
- ROBERT GRAHAM BELLMajor · May 16, 1965
- LEROY ANTHONY BOURGEOISPrivate First Class · June 18, 1965
- ROBERT FILMORE BATSONSergeant · August 18, 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.