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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Lee Brock.

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ROBERT LEE BROCK

Corporal · U.S. Army

August 21, 1949 – May 24, 1970

Service record

Robert Lee Brock, of Montezuma Creek, Utah, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on May 24, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 10W · Line 89

Position of Panel 10W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
August 21, 1949
Home of record
Montezuma Creek, Utah (San Juan County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 24, 1970
Age
20
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date May 24, 1970; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 170 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 10W, Line 89

Same unit, same day

From Montezuma Creek

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.