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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 Robert Alan Lovelace.

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ROBERT ALAN LOVELACE

First Sergeant · U.S. Army

August 23, 1930 – November 4, 1967

Service record

Robert Alan Lovelace, of Wartburg, Tennessee, served as a First Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 4, 1967, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 29E · Line 20

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Sergeant (1SG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Senior Sergeant (11G)
Unit (as recorded)
A CO 1 BN 12 INF
Born
August 23, 1930
Home of record
Wartburg, Tennessee (Morgan County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 4, 1967
Age
37
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

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26 names on the Wall carry the date November 4, 1967; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Wartburg

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.