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ROBERT EDGAR LACKEY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 20, 1949 – December 11, 1968
Service recordRobert Edgar Lackey, of Mount Laguna, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 11, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 3
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 20, 1949
- Home of record
- Mount Laguna, California (San Diego County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 11, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date December 11, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 3
- GERALD CURTIS HOAGELance Corporal · December 11, 1968
- JAKE EDWARD HURSTSergeant · December 11, 1968
- STEPHEN DOUGLAS LANGLERSpecialist Five · December 11, 1968
- PAUL EDWARD SCHMIDTSpecialist Four · December 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- BILLY LEE GOINSPrivate First Class · Panel 36W, Line 2
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.