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ROBERT GERDES BLANK
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 1, 1948 – December 21, 1968
Service recordRobert Gerdes Blank, of Neenah, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 21, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 55
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
- Pioneer (12A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 1, 1948
- Home of record
- Neenah, Wisconsin (Winnebago County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 21, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date December 21, 1968; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 55
- RICHARD KENNETH ALLEEColonel · December 21, 1968
- RICHARD CHARLES BACHERTSpecialist Four · December 21, 1968
- WILLIAM WEBB BLAIR JRCorporal · December 21, 1968
- CHARLES JOSEPH BUCKLEYPrivate First Class · December 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LARRY ALLEN GOFFPrivate First Class · Panel 36W, Line 56
- JAMES FELIX RUMMAGECorporal · Panel 36W, Line 59
From Neenah
- JOHN PAUL PAULSON JRSpecialist Four · December 11, 1967
- GENE JAY HOWARDSpecialist Five · April 2, 1968
- THOMAS FRANCIS DAZEY JRSpecialist Four · April 9, 1968
- ANDREW L HEIDERPrivate First Class · May 13, 1968
- KENNETH GEORGE LIEBHABERPrivate First Class · February 17, 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.