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ROBERT GARY OLSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 17, 1948 – May 15, 1968
Service recordRobert Gary Olson, of Englewood, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 15, 1968, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 60E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60E · Line 27
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- April 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Englewood, California (Humboldt County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 15, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
75 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1968; two of them were lost in Kien Tuong Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 60E, Line 27
- RANDALL GALE MILLIGANAirman First Class · May 15, 1968
- FRANK GEA NAVARROCorporal · May 15, 1968
- DAN LEE NEUENSCHWANDERPrivate First Class · May 15, 1968
- JOHN R OGLESBYPrivate First Class · May 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHNNIE BRYANT RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · Panel 61E, Line 2
- THOMAS LEONARD SEIFERTSergeant · Panel 61E, Line 2
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.