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ROBERT JAMES BLACK JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 16, 1947 – January 19, 1968
Service recordRobert James Black JR, of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 19, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 75
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- August 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Monroeville, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 19, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date January 19, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 75
- JUAN CARLOS CASTELLANOSCorporal · January 19, 1968
- DONALD A COFFINCorporal · January 19, 1968
- CHARLES EDWARD DAVISPrivate First Class · January 19, 1968
- JOSEPH FRANCIS DECROSTASpecialist Four · January 19, 1968
From Monroeville
- JOHN FRANCIS DANIELS JRCorporal · April 2, 1967
- WILLIAM JOSEPH FREYSpecialist Four · April 3, 1968
- RONALD DEE STEPHENSONCorporal · January 20, 1971
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.