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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Thomas Dale Robinson.

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THOMAS DALE ROBINSON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 22, 1948 – December 22, 1967

Service record

Thomas Dale Robinson, of Miami, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 22, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 46

Position of Panel 32E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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)
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
August 22, 1948
Home of record
Miami, Oklahoma (Ottawa County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 22, 1967
Age
19
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date December 22, 1967; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 46

Same unit, same day

From Miami

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.