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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Pendarvis.

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ROBERT PENDARVIS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 24, 1944 – June 29, 1967

Service record

Robert Pendarvis, of Orangeburg, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 29, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 84

Position of Panel 22E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
December 24, 1944
Home of record
Orangeburg, South Carolina (Orangeburg County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 29, 1967
Age
22
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date June 29, 1967; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 95 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 84

Same unit, same day

From Orangeburg

All 20 names from Orangeburg →

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.