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ROBIN LEE OLMSTEAD
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 11, 1948 – July 29, 1967
Service recordRobin Lee Olmstead, of Poulsbo, Washington, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 29, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 37
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Warehouse Clerk (3051)
- Born
- September 11, 1948
- Home of record
- Poulsbo, Washington (Kitsap County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 29, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
184 names on the Wall carry the date July 29, 1967; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 24E, Line 37
- GARY EUGENE NEWBYPetty Officer Third Class · July 29, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD NEWKIRKAirman Apprentice · July 29, 1967
- HUGH NORWOODSergeant · July 29, 1967
- RONALD ROY OGRINCFireman · July 29, 1967
From Poulsbo
- MARVIN CHARLES HILLPetty Officer Third Class · May 25, 1967
- PATRICK A WHITLOCKSergeant · February 4, 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.