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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Eugene Musselman.

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ROBERT EUGENE MUSSELMAN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 17, 1942 – October 25, 1967

Service record

Robert Eugene Musselman, of Richmond, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 25, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28E · Line 69

Position of Panel 28E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
June 17, 1942
Home of record
Richmond, Indiana (Wayne County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 25, 1967
Age
25
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date October 25, 1967; 18 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 94 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28E, Line 69

Same unit, same day

From Richmond

All 30 names from Richmond →

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.