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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 Lewis Emery.

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ROBERT LEWIS EMERY

Sergeant · U.S. Army

March 29, 1951 – December 28, 1969

Service record

Robert Lewis Emery, of Marine City, Michigan, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 28, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15W · Line 102

Position of Panel 15W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
March 29, 1951
Home of record
Marine City, Michigan (St Clair County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 28, 1969
Age
18
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date December 28, 1969; nine of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 52 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15W, Line 102

Same unit, same day

From Marine City

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.