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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 Howard Fuellhart.

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ROBERT HOWARD FUELLHART

Captain · U.S. Army

January 12, 1939 – August 12, 1965

Service record

Robert Howard Fuellhart, of Warren, Pennsylvania, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on August 12, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 51

Position of Panel 2E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Captain (CPT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Ranger, Infantry Unit Commander (81542)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
January 12, 1939
Home of record
Warren, Pennsylvania (Warren County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 12, 1965
Age
26
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

Three names on the Wall carry the date August 12, 1965. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 51

From Warren

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.