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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 Ronald Buck.

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ROBERT RONALD BUCK

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 9, 1946 – February 23, 1969

Service record

Robert Ronald Buck, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32W · Line 91

Position of Panel 32W 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 9, 1946
Home of record
Reynoldsburg, Ohio (Franklin County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 23, 1969
Age
22
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

209 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1969; 30 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 119 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 32W, Line 91

Same unit, same day

From Reynoldsburg

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.