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ROBERT ONEAL CATO
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 18, 1948 – August 25, 1968
Service recordRobert Oneal Cato, of Apalachicola, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 25, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 12
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 18, 1948
- Home of record
- Apalachicola, Florida (Franklin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 25, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date August 25, 1968; four of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 12
- RONALD FRANK BUSSLance Corporal · August 25, 1968
- CARLOS GUZMAN CARBAJALPrivate First Class · August 25, 1968
- TIMOTHY LEE CARMODYLance Corporal · August 25, 1968
- MICHAEL ROY CLASENPetty Officer Third Class · August 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CARL LEE BROWNPrivate First Class · Panel 46W, Line 11
- JAMES EUGENE HALLCorporal · Panel 46W, Line 15
- GARRY MICHAEL MCCULLOUGHPrivate First Class · Panel 46W, Line 18
- JOHNNY B NESBITTSpecialist Four · Panel 46W, Line 19
- ROBERT PETRACCOPrivate First Class · Panel 46W, Line 20
- DANIEL DIAS REZENDECorporal · Panel 46W, Line 21
From Apalachicola
- CLIFFORD G RHODESPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
- HERBERT EUGENE SMITHChief Master Sergeant · July 1, 1966
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.