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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Lee Culberth JR.

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ROBERT LEE CULBERTH JR

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

October 1, 1947 – November 30, 1967

Service record

Robert Lee Culberth JR, of Ft Pierce, Florida, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 30, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 10

Position of Panel 31E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Assaultman (0351)
Born
October 1, 1947
Home of record
Ft Pierce, Florida (St Lucie County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 30, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

60 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 10

From Ft Pierce

All 19 names from Ft Pierce →

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.