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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 Muldrow.

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ROBERT LEE MULDROW

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 19, 1944 – October 30, 1967

Service record

Robert Lee Muldrow, of Dayton, Ohio, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 30, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28E · Line 100

Position of Panel 28E 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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
February 19, 1944
Home of record
Dayton, Ohio (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 30, 1967
Age
23
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date October 30, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 81 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28E, Line 100

Same unit, same day

From Dayton

All 122 names from Dayton →

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.