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ROBERT ROYCE SLOPPYE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 15, 1948 – January 23, 1969
Service recordRobert Royce Sloppye, of Sacramento, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 23, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 68
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 283 MED DET USARV
- Born
- March 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Sacramento, California (Sacramento County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 23, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1969; seven of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “283 MED DET USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 68
- ROBERTO RUIZ-PEREZPrivate First Class · January 23, 1969
- ARVID OSCAR SILVERBERG JRWarrant Officer 1 · January 23, 1969
- EDWARD SMITH JRSpecialist Four · January 23, 1969
- BENEDICT JOHN TRIPODOCorporal · January 23, 1969
Same unit, same day
- SYLVESTER DAVISWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 34W, Line 64
- ARVID OSCAR SILVERBERG JRWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 34W, Line 68
From Sacramento
- IRVING ALBERT SELFSergeant · May 19, 1964
- LEONARD PAUL HUDSONFirst Lieutenant · November 19, 1964
- CRAIG LOUIS HAGENSergeant · June 10, 1965
- DAVID LEVANT FELTPrivate First Class · August 17, 1965
- RICHARD GRIFFITH PHILBINPrivate First Class · February 2, 1966
- PHILLIP ANTHONY LOTTAPrivate First Class · February 25, 1966
- MICHAEL ANTHONY GILSONPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- RICHARD LEE LAWSLieutenant · April 3, 1966
- ROBERT LEE FOSTERPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
- GERALD C HUNSBARGER IIIPrivate First Class · June 2, 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.