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ROBERT LLOYD DETRICK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 14, 1948 – November 20, 1968
Service recordRobert Lloyd Detrick, of Montara, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 20, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 14
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HHT 1 SQD 11 CAV 11 ACR
- Born
- March 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Montara, California (San Mateo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 20, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date November 20, 1968; ten of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 14
- RAYMOND LEE BROWNPrivate First Class · November 20, 1968
- ROGER CLINTON BROWNPrivate First Class · November 20, 1968
- ROBERT LEON BROWNLEESpecialist Four · November 20, 1968
- KEVIN GAIL BURKEFirst Lieutenant · November 20, 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.