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ROY RAY ROBINSON
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
November 27, 1948 – February 21, 1968
Service recordRoy Ray Robinson, of Mcarthur, Ohio, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 21, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 55
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Light Wheel Vehicle Mechanic (63B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- November 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Mcarthur, Ohio (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 21, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date February 21, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 40E, Line 55
- LUCIEN ROBINSONPrivate First Class · February 21, 1968
- WALTER ROBINSONCorporal · February 21, 1968
- ROBERT JOHN ROSENWALDPrivate First Class · February 21, 1968
- WILLIAM ALLEN ROZZICorporal · February 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD PATRICK FRASCACorporal · Panel 40E, Line 52
- ZYGMUNT PAUL JABLONSKI JRPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 53
- WALTER ROBINSONCorporal · Panel 40E, Line 55
From Mcarthur
- JOHN EVERETTE PERRYPrivate First Class · September 12, 1968
- JOHN MASON GOODWINPrivate First Class · March 19, 1969
- REX FILLMORE CHURCHStaff Sergeant · March 23, 1969
- LAURIE EUGENE BARNESFirst Lieutenant · April 11, 1969
- LESLIE REYNOLDS JRPrivate First Class · July 17, 1969
- THOMAS EDWARD F PEACOCKSergeant · June 3, 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.