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ROBERT LEE SCOTT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 12, 1948 – September 11, 1968
Service recordRobert Lee Scott, of Redwood, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 11, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 29
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- September 12, 1948
- Home of record
- Redwood, Mississippi (Warren County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 11, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
63 names on the Wall carry the date September 11, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 29
- HEINZ RUCHTIPrivate First Class · September 11, 1968
- VINICIO FREDEK SANTUCCISpecialist Four · September 11, 1968
- BILLY JOE SCOTTPrivate First Class · September 11, 1968
- WILLIAM SLADECorporal · September 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM JOSEPH GAGNIERSergeant · Panel 44W, Line 24
- ROLAND ALLEN GORSCHBOTHPrivate First Class · Panel 44W, Line 24
- VINICIO FREDEK SANTUCCISpecialist Four · Panel 44W, Line 29
- THOMAS DAVID SMITHSpecialist Four · Panel 44W, Line 30
- HARRY L VANALST JRSpecialist Four · Panel 44W, Line 32
- GARY ALAN WALDORFPrivate First Class · Panel 44W, Line 32
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.