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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 Daryl Lieser.

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ROBERT DARYL LIESER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 31, 1949 – March 26, 1969

Service record

Robert Daryl Lieser, of Carol City, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28W · Line 49

Position of Panel 28W 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
Pioneer (12A)
Unit (as recorded)
C CO 39 ENG BN 45 ENG GRP
Born
March 31, 1949
Home of record
Carol City, Florida (Dade County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 26, 1969
Age
19
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

71 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 28W, Line 49

From Carol City

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.