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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 Carl Voltz.

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ROBERT CARL VOLTZ

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 24, 1941 – March 11, 1967

Service record

Robert Carl Voltz, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 11, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 66

Position of Panel 16E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
October 24, 1941
Home of record
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 11, 1967
Age
25
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

57 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 66

Same unit, same day

From Philadelphia

All 622 names from Philadelphia →

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.