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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Tim Rohweller.

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ROBERT TIM ROHWELLER

First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

March 15, 1944 – April 21, 1969

Service record

Robert Tim Rohweller, of Jacksonville, Florida, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 21, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26W · Line 21

Position of Panel 26W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
First Lieutenant (1STLT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
Unit (as recorded)
3 FORCE 3 RECON BN 3 MARDIV
Born
March 15, 1944
Home of record
Jacksonville, Florida (Duval County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 21, 1969
Age
25
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Died of other causes

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date April 21, 1969; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 26W, Line 21

From Jacksonville

All 202 names from Jacksonville →

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.