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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Michael Durall.

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ROBERT MICHAEL DURALL

Corporal · U.S. Army

November 18, 1949 – August 22, 1970

Service record

Robert Michael Durall, of Daleville, Alabama, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on August 22, 1970, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 8W, Line 130 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8W · Line 130

Position of Panel 8W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
November 18, 1949
Home of record
Daleville, Alabama (Dale County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 22, 1970
Age
20
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date August 22, 1970; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In August 1970, 452 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8W, Line 130

Same unit, same day

From Daleville

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.