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ROBERT LEE HENDERSON
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
January 19, 1933 – June 15, 1970
Service recordRobert Lee Henderson, of Spring Lake, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 15, 1970, in Cambodia, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9W · Line 56
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- January 19, 1933
- Home of record
- Spring Lake, North Carolina (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 15, 1970
- Age
- 37
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1970. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
He died in Cambodia while the Cambodian incursion was under way. From 29 April to 30 June 1970, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces crossed into Cambodia to attack North Vietnamese base areas and supply caches; the announcement set off campus protests, including at Kent State.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 9W, Line 56
- ROBERT MARTIN KUNER JRLance Corporal · June 15, 1970
- RONALD MANNINGPrivate First Class · June 15, 1970
- KENNETH WAYNE MARTINSergeant · June 15, 1970
- MARK SYLVESTER BEHRENTPrivate First Class · June 16, 1970
From Spring Lake
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN FIELDSStaff Sergeant · November 15, 1965
- JOHN MATHAS JAMESLance Corporal · April 12, 1966
- ROGER THOMAS MACNUTTCorporal · November 6, 1966
- MICHAEL JOHN POLLSpecialist Five · November 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.