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ROBERT LEE BUTLER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 7, 1947 – March 26, 1968
Service recordRobert Lee Butler, of Peoria, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 30
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Peoria, Illinois (Peoria County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1968; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 188 of its members that month.
He died in Hua Nghia 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 46E, Line 30
- JAMES HENRY CAMPBELL JRSpecialist Four · March 26, 1968
- MICHAEL WILLIAM CAMPOSSpecialist Four · March 26, 1968
- BARTON WAINWRIGHT CAREYPrivate First Class · March 26, 1968
- WILLIAM HAROLD COOKPetty Officer Third Class · March 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES HENRY CAMPBELL JRSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 30
- BARTON WAINWRIGHT CAREYPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 30
- LARRY EUGENE ELMOREPrivate · Panel 46E, Line 31
- ALAN SPENCE KOHNSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 36
From Peoria
- GARY PAUL BLANDLance Corporal · September 22, 1965
- JAMES RICHARD DISCHERTLance Corporal · October 11, 1965
- ANTHONY EUGENE PENDOLAPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- DANIEL JAMES SOBOTAPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- JOSEPH MYRON WORKMANPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- KIRK IRWIN RILEYCaptain · December 3, 1965
- JOHN HENRY BELLPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
- JERRY JACK JOHNSONSecond Lieutenant · June 23, 1966
- HAROLD JOSEPH ALWANLieutenant Colonel · February 27, 1967
- HAROLD EDWARD NULLSpecialist Four · March 24, 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.