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ROBERT WAYNE EDWARDS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 17, 1947 – April 28, 1967
Service recordRobert Wayne Edwards, of Livonia, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 28, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 107
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A BTRY 7 BN 11 ARTY 25 INF DIV
- Born
- September 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Livonia, Michigan (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 28, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1967; seven of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 107
- TEODORO DAVILAStaff Sergeant · April 28, 1967
- JERRY DELPHStaff Sergeant · April 28, 1967
- DANIEL CHARLES FOWLERPlatoon Sergeant · April 28, 1967
- DANIEL CRAIG GILLESPIESergeant · April 28, 1967
From Livonia
- PATRICK JOSEPH CONNORSPrivate First Class · August 30, 1966
- MARVIN MERLE DICKSPrivate First Class · January 21, 1967
- DWIGHT ELMER TIMBERLAKESpecialist Four · May 21, 1967
- JOSEPH WILLIAM AXFORDLance Corporal · June 2, 1967
- ARTHUR PERRY COPELANDLance Corporal · December 21, 1967
- JAMES A TILLEYSergeant · January 18, 1968
- ARNOLD PAUL SARNASpecialist Four · March 13, 1968
- JERRY ALAN WYMANSpecialist Four · May 5, 1968
- DENNIS JEROME SPECKSpecialist Four · July 23, 1968
- ROBERT GERALD TATELance Corporal · September 19, 1968
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.