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ROBERT JOHN JOSEPH FOLEY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 24, 1949 – August 29, 1968
Service recordRobert John Joseph Foley, of Norristown, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 29, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 58
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 24, 1949
- Home of record
- Norristown, Pennsylvania (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 29, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 58
- MARSHALL EUGENE CALLAHANPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- LYNDAL RAY CALLIHANCorporal · August 29, 1968
- RICHARD ALLEN EVANS JRPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- RICHARD DWAYNE FAIRCLOTHPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- WILLIE JAMES FAULKSLance Corporal · August 29, 1968
From Norristown
- ROBERT FRANCIS RONCAMajor · February 19, 1965
- WILLIAM RICHARD REESE JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1966
- NICHOLAS JOSEPH FULMERSpecialist Four · November 12, 1966
- MICHAEL ALEXANDER BARONOWSKILance Corporal · November 29, 1966
- NILS ARDEN DRENNENPrivate First Class · March 12, 1967
- JOHN ELLWOOD SCHEETZPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- DANIEL WILLIAM BRADYLance Corporal · July 2, 1967
- WILLIE LEE JONES JRSpecialist Four · September 5, 1967
- DAVID BRAUCH LEFEVERCorporal · September 6, 1967
- JIMMIE LUE MCMORRISPrivate First Class · November 15, 1967
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.