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ROBERT THOMPSON JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 2, 1944 – April 8, 1967
Service recordRobert Thompson JR, of Sepulveda, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 8, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 1
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 2, 1944
- Home of record
- Sepulveda, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 8, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1967; six of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 18E, Line 1
- MCCLURE THACKERSONPrivate First Class · April 8, 1967
- EVARISTO VILANOSergeant · April 8, 1967
- MICHAEL ALLEN WELCHCorporal · April 8, 1967
- GARY EUGENE WHIPPLESpecialist Four · April 8, 1967
Same unit, same day
- TERRENCE GLADE DIXONCorporal · Panel 17E, Line 121
- FELIX F F LEYVA-PARRA-FRIASPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 125
- DON LESLIE MICHAELSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 125
- ALBERT MARSHALL GUYERFirst Lieutenant · Panel 17E, Line 126
- HIGINIO OVALLE OVIEDOPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 127
From Sepulveda
- RICHARD L HATLESTADFirst Lieutenant · April 12, 1963
- JOHN ANDREW EWARTLance Corporal · March 23, 1967
- JAMES ALFRED MCMURDOLance Corporal · June 6, 1967
- FRANK JOSEPH COSTANTINI JRPrivate First Class · June 21, 1967
- WILLIAM THOMAS PERKINS JRCorporal · October 12, 1967
- JOHN ANTHONY BAFILESpecialist Five · February 20, 1968
- MICHAEL WILLIAM HOLZMANPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- MICHAEL GALE HUTSONLance Corporal · August 28, 1968
- TIMOTHY MICHAEL HARRINGTONSpecialist Four · February 5, 1969
- BENJAMIN BUGARINCaptain · April 27, 1969
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.