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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 Glenn JR.

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ROBERT LEE GLENN JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

May 4, 1948 – April 28, 1968

Service record

Robert Lee Glenn JR, of Marrero, Louisiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 28, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 52E · Line 37

Position of Panel 52E 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
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
May 4, 1948
Home of record
Marrero, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
April 28, 1968
Age
19
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

63 names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1968; five of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 52E, Line 37

Same unit, same day

From Marrero

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.