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TOBY ERNEST COLLINS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 18, 1947 – June 11, 1968
Service recordToby Ernest Collins, of Dover, Delaware, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 23
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- November 18, 1947
- Home of record
- Dover, Delaware (Kent County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 23
- MICHAEL BARDCorporal · June 11, 1968
- DELAINE ARNOLD A CHAP JRSpecialist Four · June 11, 1968
- CHARLES JOSEPH CHASEStaff Sergeant · June 11, 1968
- DAVID MICHAEL CRONINStaff Sergeant · June 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE WAYNE LARGEPrivate First Class · Panel 58W, Line 27
- HERBERT NEIL STEHLESpecialist Four · Panel 58W, Line 27
From Dover
- GEORGE WARREN CRIPPSSpecialist Four · January 13, 1966
- EDWIN HAROLD SORNSONPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- HAROLD WILLIAM HADDICKChief Master Sergeant · August 22, 1967
- DONALD E KENTONWarrant Officer 1 · March 6, 1968
- NOLAN REED RAYSpecialist Four · April 12, 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.