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ROBERT LEE URBAN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 23, 1948 – October 8, 1968
Service recordRobert Lee Urban, of Hays, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 8, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 33
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
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- November 23, 1948
- Home of record
- Hays, Kansas (Ellis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 8, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date October 8, 1968; five of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 33
- LARRY WILLIAM WATSONPrivate First Class · October 8, 1968
- DANIEL EARL WINTERSPrivate First Class · October 8, 1968
- WILLIAM EVERETT WYROSDICCorporal · October 8, 1968
- WARDELL LESTER ARMSTRONGPrivate First Class · October 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- SHERMAN ALVIN FURROW JRSpecialist Four · Panel 41W, Line 29
- EUGENE HINGLETON JRSpecialist Four · Panel 41W, Line 29
- LUCAS HERRERA RODRIGUEZPrivate First Class · Panel 41W, Line 31
From Hays
- NORMAN ALEXIUS LEIKAMMajor · October 23, 1965
- GARY LEE BINDERConstructionman · October 13, 1967
- OLIS RAY RIGBYSpecialist Four · November 21, 1967
- JAMES EARL HESKETTSpecialist Four · January 7, 1968
- ARTHUR LEE KLAUSCorporal · February 8, 1969
- CHARLES WALTER MALONEMajor · October 5, 1969
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.