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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Peter Scibilia.

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ROBERT PETER SCIBILIA

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 9, 1948 – May 23, 1969

Service record

Robert Peter Scibilia, of Nashua, New Hampshire, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 23, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 90 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24W · Line 90

Position of Panel 24W 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)
9 INF DIV
Born
May 9, 1948
Home of record
Nashua, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 23, 1969
Age
21
Province
Kien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

56 names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1969; six of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 24W, Line 90

Same unit, same day

From Nashua

All 18 names from Nashua →

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.