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ROBERT FRANCIS PREISS JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 27, 1945 – May 12, 1970
Service recordRobert Francis Preiss JR, of Cornwall, New York, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1970, in Laos, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · Line 28
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- April 27, 1945
- Home of record
- Cornwall, New York (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1970
- Age
- 25
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1970. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 10W, Line 28
- JAMES HILTON RAWSONSpecialist Four · May 12, 1970
- MICHAEL WAYNE RAYSpecialist Five · May 12, 1970
- STEVEN RAY RENNERSpecialist Five · May 12, 1970
- KENNETH FAULKNER ROGERSFirst Lieutenant · May 12, 1970
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.