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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 Henry Ranges JR.

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ROBERT HENRY RANGES JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 31, 1947 – April 4, 1968

Service record

Robert Henry Ranges JR, of River Vale, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 4, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 48E · Line 10

Position of Panel 48E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
December 31, 1947
Home of record
River Vale, New Jersey (Bergen County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 4, 1968
Age
20
Province
Kien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

73 names on the Wall carry the date April 4, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 48E, Line 10

Same unit, same day

From River Vale

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.