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ROBERT DUANE PIERCE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 3, 1951 – November 15, 1971
Service recordRobert Duane Pierce, of Saginaw, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 15, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 67
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- December 3, 1951
- Home of record
- Saginaw, Michigan (Saginaw County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 15, 1971
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date November 15, 1971; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In November 1971, 109 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 67
- HAROLD JUNIOR RITCHSpecialist Four · November 12, 1971
- DANIEL SCANLON BROOKERSergeant · November 15, 1971
- JOHN ANDREW CHARNOPLOSKYSergeant · November 15, 1971
- DAVID ATOIGUE GORTONSpecialist Four · November 15, 1971
Same unit, same day
- WILFRED NORBERT POEPPINGSpecialist Four · Panel 2W, Line 68
From Saginaw
- BRICKIE BOWMAN JRPrivate · May 23, 1965
- PAUL HAMILTON JRSergeant · October 3, 1965
- HEZEKIAH GOSS JRSpecialist Five · January 15, 1966
- ROBERT ALLEN KOWALSKICorporal · January 25, 1966
- TERRY R MCLEANStaff Sergeant · April 2, 1966
- WILLIAM JOSEPH COXPrivate First Class · October 13, 1966
- MILES DENNIS COOPERPrivate First Class · November 19, 1966
- EDWARD EARL SCHELLPrivate First Class · February 6, 1967
- JOHN ROBERT CUSHMANSpecialist Four · March 20, 1967
- STANLEY FOSTER BARRETTPrivate First Class · April 27, 1967
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.