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ROBERT WENDELL GILLIAM
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 4, 1945 – October 7, 1966
Service recordRobert Wendell Gilliam, of Lompoc, California, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on October 7, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 57
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 129 AVN CO 10 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- January 4, 1945
- Home of record
- Lompoc, California (Santa Barbara County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 7, 1966
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date October 7, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “129 AVN CO 10 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 11E, Line 57
- JOHN LOUIS HALLSpecialist Five · October 7, 1966
- JOHN THOMAS HENSLEYPrivate First Class · October 7, 1966
- HARTLEY MICHAEL JOSEPHSONLieutenant · October 7, 1966
- LARRY DALE KNIGHTMajor · October 7, 1966
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT F CHAMBERLAINWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 11E, Line 54
- JOHNNY LEONARD NEALSpecialist Four · Panel 11E, Line 58
From Lompoc
- BILLIE LESTER BEARDStaff Sergeant · April 21, 1962
- FRED WALTER PACKSergeant · March 11, 1967
- THORNE M CLARK IIIPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
- WALTER JOHN PANAMAROFFFirst Lieutenant · March 15, 1968
- ROBERT MICHAEL SWICKFirst Lieutenant · June 6, 1968
- MITCHELL ALLEN WENTZPetty Officer Second Class · June 7, 1968
- JIM ROY GONZALESSpecialist Four · July 1, 1968
- JOSEPH FRANK BIBERSergeant · September 19, 1968
- DANIEL JOSEPH VAUGHANSpecialist Five · May 11, 1970
- MARC BRADLEY BELONCorporal · May 14, 1970
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.