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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Glenn Galloway.

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ROBERT GLENN GALLOWAY

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 15, 1947 – June 2, 1968

Service record

Robert Glenn Galloway, of Berea, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 2, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 61W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 61W · Line 14

Position of Panel 61W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
September 15, 1947
Home of record
Berea, Kentucky (Madison County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 2, 1968
Age
20
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Burns/Smoke Inhalation

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date June 2, 1968; five of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 49 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 61W, Line 14

Same unit, same day

From Berea

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.