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ROBERT LE ROY WADE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 9, 1946 – April 11, 1970
Service recordRobert Le Roy Wade, of Lafayette, Indiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 11, 1970, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12W · Line 126
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- January 9, 1946
- Home of record
- Lafayette, Indiana (Tippecanoe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 11, 1970
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1970; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12W, Line 126
- CLIFFORD LAWRENCE TARBELLSpecialist Four · April 11, 1970
- GARRY WALLACE WARDLance Corporal · April 11, 1970
- GEORGE HARTWELL ADAMSCaptain · April 12, 1970
- BRUCE ELLIS ARMSTRONGPrivate First Class · April 12, 1970
From Lafayette
- ROBERT LEE MANNCaptain · October 22, 1965
- JAMES DARRYL BASHAMPrivate First Class · September 7, 1966
- CHARLES ALLEN KNOCHELLieutenant · September 22, 1966
- ROBERT JOE HARDESTYSpecialist Four · December 27, 1966
- DAVID LEROY HOWARDPrivate First Class · September 14, 1967
- WILLIAM ROBERT JENNETTSpecialist Four · April 26, 1968
- THOMAS HAROLD NERINIPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
- RANDELL HOOD LOYSpecialist Four · September 4, 1968
- STEVEN RANDALL BROOKSLance Corporal · September 13, 1968
- DOYLE EUGENE SALLEECorporal · November 12, 1968
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.