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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Lee Devoe.

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ROBERT LEE DEVOE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 4, 1945 – November 8, 1967

Service record

Robert Lee Devoe, of Fawn Grove, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 8, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 48

Position of Panel 29E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Duty Soldier (57A)
Unit (as recorded)
402 TRANS CO 11 TRANS BN 4 TRANS CMD 1 LOG CMD
Born
September 4, 1945
Home of record
Fawn Grove, Pennsylvania (York County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 8, 1967
Age
22
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date November 8, 1967; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 48

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.