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ROBERT JOHN ROSENWALD
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 1, 1946 – February 21, 1968
Service recordRobert John Rosenwald, of Mckees Rocks, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 21, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 55
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 1, 1946
- Home of record
- Mckees Rocks, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 21, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date February 21, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 232 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 55
- LUCIEN ROBINSONPrivate First Class · February 21, 1968
- ROY RAY ROBINSONSpecialist Five · February 21, 1968
- WALTER ROBINSONCorporal · February 21, 1968
- WILLIAM ALLEN ROZZICorporal · February 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES DOUGLAS BROWNStaff Sergeant · Panel 40E, Line 51
- WILLIAM THOMAS CONLEYSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 54
- FRANK RONALD MANELLOSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 54
From Mckees Rocks
- JOHN STEVEN WOOLHEATERPetty Officer Third Class · January 27, 1967
- ROBERT JOHN KOTIKLance Corporal · April 30, 1967
- KENNETH JAMES PATTONStaff Sergeant · February 2, 1968
- JOHN PASS IIISpecialist Four · February 19, 1968
- ALAN ROBERT GAULTSpecialist Four · April 10, 1968
- JOHN EDWARD METZLERPrivate First Class · October 12, 1968
- GEORGE WILLIAM GREGAWarrant Officer 1 · November 2, 1969
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.