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ROBERT D ANDRADE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 31, 1937 – July 17, 1969
Service recordRobert D Andrade, of Makawao, Hawaii, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 17, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 9
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 31, 1937
- Home of record
- Makawao, Hawaii (Maui County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 17, 1969
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date July 17, 1969; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 20W, Line 9
- DENNIS KARL HOPPOUGHLance Corporal · July 16, 1969
- ELWIN EARL SINGLETONSpecialist Five · July 16, 1969
- BENJAMIN JOSEPH SULLIVANPrivate First Class · July 16, 1969
- ROBERT FRANKLIN BACONPrivate First Class · July 17, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DENNIS WILLIAM BINGHAMSpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 10
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.