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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 Rafael Lisboa.

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RAFAEL LISBOA

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 28, 1948 – September 24, 1967

Service record

Rafael Lisboa, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 24, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 6

Position of Panel 27E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
August 28, 1948
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 24, 1967
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date September 24, 1967. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 6

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.