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ROBERT LEE TATE
Corporal · U.S. Army
August 20, 1947 – April 7, 1968
Service recordRobert Lee Tate, of Gastonia, North Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on April 7, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 48
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- August 20, 1947
- Home of record
- Gastonia, North Carolina (Gaston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 7, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 48E, Line 48
- JAMES PRATT SMITHPrivate · April 7, 1968
- JOHN MARSHALL SNYDER JRLance Corporal · April 7, 1968
- JEFFRY RAY THARALDSONPrivate First Class · April 7, 1968
- GEORGE MARTIN WEITZELPrivate First Class · April 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD STEVEN BROWNPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 39
- LEONARD DANIEL ERICKSONPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 40
- JOSEPH MAURICE REESPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 46
- GLENN A WESTPHALSpecialist Five · Panel 48E, Line 49
From Gastonia
- MAUSBY EDWARD HYLEMANSpecialist Four · October 1, 1965
- CARL DUANE PRUITTPrivate First Class · November 4, 1966
- ROBERT STEVEN KEENERPrivate First Class · January 13, 1967
- DONALD TERRY HELTONSpecialist Four · April 3, 1967
- TONY LEE VAN WHITELance Corporal · September 7, 1967
- CARL HORACE WALL JRLance Corporal · October 6, 1967
- MICHAEL YATES KEETERPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- GLENN WILLIAM RAMEYPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- ROGER LYNN COUICKPrivate First Class · February 17, 1968
- KENNETH GLENN SPENCERFirst Lieutenant · April 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.