Robert Dean Plato

Master Sergeant
FOB-1, CCN, MACV-SOG, SPECIAL FORCES
Army of the United States
15 June 1935 - 20 May 1968
El Reno, Oklahoma
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SPECIAL FORCES

MACV-SOG 		Distinguished Service Cross

Combat Infantry

Purple Heart, Good Conduct, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign

Airborne!

The database page for Robert Dean Plato

28 Dec 2003

Master Sergeant Robert Plato was a member of the 5th Special Forces Group, MACV-SOG, Command and Control North, FOB1, Phu Bai, RSVN.

He served with the Hatchet Force and was killed while trying to help his wounded Cambodian troops. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

We were on an operation inside Laos near the Ho Chi Minh Trail and I helped recover his body.

MSG Plato was married and his wife was from Okinawa, Japan, and they had several children.

From a fellow soldier,
Steven R. Schofield
Major, SF, USAR (Ret)
schofield@lakefield.net

22 Oct 2004

Miss you and I am still trying to be the man I remember.

Sincerely, from his son,
Donald J. Plato
1800 Fuller Wiser 1001, Euless, Texas 76039
patricia.tarango@sbcglobal.net





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Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
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