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ROBERT LEE PERRY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 16, 1949 – May 6, 1968
Service recordRobert Lee Perry, of Muncie, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 6, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 56E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56E · Line 15
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
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C CO 14 ENG BN USARV
- Born
- July 16, 1949
- Home of record
- Muncie, Indiana (Delaware County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 6, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
102 names on the Wall carry the date May 6, 1968; 31 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 56E, Line 15
- WILLIAM JOHN PRITCHARDLieutenant Commander · May 6, 1968
- KENNETH RAYMOND QUANPrivate First Class · May 6, 1968
- RONALD LEE ROGERSSpecialist Four · May 6, 1968
- ROGER LEE ROWLANDLance Corporal · May 6, 1968
From Muncie
- NEIL BERNARD MCKINNEYFirst Lieutenant · September 2, 1963
- ROBERT LEWIS CLARKStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- FRED YOUEL WRIGHT JRPrivate First Class · March 22, 1966
- EDWARD C ZIMMERMAN JRLance Corporal · June 25, 1966
- GLENDON LEE AMMONColonel · September 21, 1966
- ELMER LEVERNE BUCHANANPrivate First Class · September 24, 1966
- THOMAS JOSEPH CAREYSergeant · January 26, 1967
- HARVEY GRANT HOWE JRWarrant Officer 1 · January 28, 1967
- ALAN CRAIG SHROYERPrivate First Class · March 4, 1967
- CHARLES DUANE SAYLORSpecialist Four · March 12, 1967
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.