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ROBERT LEE COUSIN
Corporal · U.S. Army
July 8, 1944 – June 8, 1968
Service recordRobert Lee Cousin, of Hogansville, Georgia, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on June 8, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 2
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- July 8, 1944
- Home of record
- Hogansville, Georgia (Troup County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 8, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date June 8, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 2
- RENATO MARTIN BEVILACQUAPrivate First Class · June 8, 1968
- ANTHONY CARRAAirman First Class · June 8, 1968
- SCOTT DENNIS CORRELLOPrivate First Class · June 8, 1968
- GERALD JAMES FROSTCorporal · June 8, 1968
From Hogansville
- THOMAS STEWART CAMERONPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- MARTIN DAVID HESTERCorporal · October 5, 1967
- RONALD LARRY SMITHFirst Lieutenant · February 23, 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.