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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Lynn Fox JR.

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ROBERT LYNN FOX JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 11, 1945 – November 30, 1968

Service record

Robert Lynn Fox JR, of Asheboro, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 30, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 37W · Line 10

Position of Panel 37W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
September 11, 1945
Home of record
Asheboro, North Carolina (Randolph County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 30, 1968
Age
23
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 37W, Line 10

Same unit, same day

From Asheboro

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.