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ROBERT ALAN LAFOUNTAIN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
November 4, 1948 – March 28, 1968
Service recordRobert Alan Lafountain, of Rouses Point, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 28, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 56
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- November 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Rouses Point, New York (Clinton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 28, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1968; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 56
- EMERSON PAUL COLESergeant · March 28, 1968
- PAUL DAVID KUEHLPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
- LARRY CLARENCE KYARSpecialist Four · March 28, 1968
- FRANKLIN D LACEYPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
From Rouses Point
- THOMAS FARRELL ELDRIDGEFirst Lieutenant · December 29, 1965
- JOHN FRANCIS SNOWPetty Officer Second Class · July 29, 1967
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.