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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Ernest Bauer.

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ROBERT ERNEST BAUER

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

March 10, 1947 – September 26, 1970

Service record

Robert Ernest Bauer, of Pearl River, New York, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on September 26, 1970, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7W · Line 91

Position of Panel 7W 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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
March 10, 1947
Home of record
Pearl River, New York (Rockland County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 26, 1970
Age
23
Province
Long Khanh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date September 26, 1970; eight of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In September 1970, 364 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7W, Line 91

Same unit, same day

From Pearl River

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.