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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Louis Robert Sustersic.

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LOUIS ROBERT SUSTERSIC

Captain · U.S. Army

September 21, 1943 – November 3, 1969

Service record

Louis Robert Sustersic, of Blaine, Ohio, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on November 3, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16W · Line 24

Position of Panel 16W 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
Captain (CPT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
September 21, 1943
Home of record
Blaine, Ohio (Belmont County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 3, 1969
Age
26
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date November 3, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16W, Line 24

Same unit, same day

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.