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ROBERT PATRICK MCCORMICK
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 31, 1941 – August 27, 1968
Service recordRobert Patrick McCormick, of West Grove, Pennsylvania, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 27, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 43
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- December 31, 1941
- Home of record
- West Grove, Pennsylvania (Chester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 27, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date August 27, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 43
- ADOLFO VALENZUELA MORENOSergeant · August 27, 1968
- JAMES CHRISTIAN NAUCorporal · August 27, 1968
- BRUCE CAMERON PALMERWarrant Officer 1 · August 27, 1968
- HAROLD LECURNE ZUG JRSergeant · August 27, 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.