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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Ira Rabb.

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ROBERT IRA RABB

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

October 16, 1946 – May 5, 1970

Service record

Robert Ira Rabb, of Darien, Georgia, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 5, 1970, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11W · Line 105

Position of Panel 11W 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Air Observation Pilot (1981)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
October 16, 1946
Home of record
Darien, Georgia (Mcintosh County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 5, 1970
Age
23
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

48 names on the Wall carry the date May 5, 1970; four of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 62 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11W, Line 105

Same unit, same day

From Darien

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.