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ROBERT LEE MCCAIG
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 30, 1947 – May 8, 1966
Service recordRobert Lee McCaig, of Florence, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 40
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 30, 1947
- Home of record
- Florence, Alabama (Lauderdale County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1966
- Age
- 18
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 7E, Line 40
- MICHAEL LEE FAULKNERPrivate First Class · May 8, 1966
- CARMINE VINCENT GENOVESEPrivate First Class · May 8, 1966
- ARTHUR LOUIS JOHNSONPrivate First Class · May 8, 1966
- TIMOTHY RAYPrivate First Class · May 8, 1966
Same unit, same day
- STEPHEN JOSEPH STERITIPrivate First Class · Panel 7E, Line 41
From Florence
- PHILLIP DON CHILDERSFirst Lieutenant · May 28, 1965
- FELIX DELOACH KING JRSecond Lieutenant · November 6, 1965
- SAMUEL EARL COKERPrivate · November 14, 1965
- ROGER JERREL BRYANTPrivate First Class · November 12, 1966
- PAUL ONEAL BROWNStaff Sergeant · November 20, 1966
- JAMES LARRY EVANSFirst Lieutenant · March 22, 1967
- DANNY JOE WILSONPrivate First Class · August 18, 1966
- RICHARD J GLENNFirst Lieutenant · February 8, 1968
- EDWARD LEE BROCKSpecialist Four · May 6, 1968
- JAMES DALE HODGESPrivate First Class · May 25, 1968
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.