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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 H Santorella.

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ROBERT H SANTORELLA

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

June 24, 1940 – April 15, 1966

Service record

Robert H Santorella, of Denver, Colorado, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 15, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6E · Line 115

Position of Panel 6E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
Born
June 24, 1940
Home of record
Denver, Colorado (Denver County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 15, 1966
Age
25
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

Nine names on the Wall carry the date April 15, 1966. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 6E, Line 115

From Denver

All 183 names from Denver →

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.