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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 Robert Alan Lewis.

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ROBERT ALAN LEWIS

Corporal · U.S. Army

January 12, 1948 – July 3, 1969

Service record

Robert Alan Lewis, of Moultrie, Georgia, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on July 3, 1969, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 54

Position of Panel 21W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
January 12, 1948
Home of record
Moultrie, Georgia (Colquitt County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 3, 1969
Age
21
Province
Long Khanh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

42 names on the Wall carry the date July 3, 1969; ten of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 54

Same unit, same day

From Moultrie

All 15 names from Moultrie →

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.