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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Lee Hyde.

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ROBERT LEE HYDE

Private · U.S. Army

October 24, 1944 – September 21, 1966

Service record

Robert Lee Hyde, of Denver, Colorado, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on September 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 128 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10E · Line 128

Position of Panel 10E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private (PVT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
October 24, 1944
Home of record
Denver, Colorado (Denver County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 21, 1966
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date September 21, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10E, Line 128

Same unit, same day

From Denver

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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.