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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 Charles Kugelmann.

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ROBERT CHARLES KUGELMANN

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

January 23, 1946 – December 12, 1967

Service record

Robert Charles Kugelmann, of Manasquan, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on December 12, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 84

Position of Panel 31E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Construction Equipment Repairer (62B)
Born
January 23, 1946
Home of record
Manasquan, New Jersey (Monmouth County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 12, 1967
Age
21
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Stroke

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date December 12, 1967; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 84

From Manasquan

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.