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ROBERT WAYNE GLIDDEN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 14, 1948 – April 20, 1968
Service recordRobert Wayne Glidden, of Bemidji, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 20, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 6
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- June 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Bemidji, Minnesota (Beltrami County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 20, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date April 20, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 51E, Line 6
- JERRY JUNIOR CHAPMANSergeant · April 20, 1968
- MICHAEL MARSHALL CLAYTONLance Corporal · April 20, 1968
- FRANK MAXWELL DARLINGPrivate First Class · April 20, 1968
- ROME EDWARD DIMMERLINGPrivate First Class · April 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICKY LEE NULLPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 11
- EDWARD DELBERT ULMANCorporal · Panel 51E, Line 14
From Bemidji
- THOMAS CHARLES LEWERCorporal · February 8, 1968
- RICHARD DEWEY VICKPrivate First Class · February 20, 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.