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ROBERT JAMES BURROUGHS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 26, 1942 – October 14, 1967
Service recordRobert James Burroughs, of Trenton, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 14, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 107
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 26, 1942
- Home of record
- Trenton, New Jersey (Mercer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 14, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date October 14, 1967; ten of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 94 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 107
- ROBERT DAVID BUCHANANPrivate First Class · October 14, 1967
- ROGER GARYLEE CAREYPrivate First Class · October 14, 1967
- DENNIS ALLEN CARLSONPrivate First Class · October 14, 1967
- LOUIS COLSTON JRPrivate First Class · October 14, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES WESLEY BIRDSpecialist Four · Panel 27E, Line 106
- DONALD CHARLES HANSEN JRSpecialist Five · Panel 28E, Line 1
- GLENN EUGENE LUHNOWPrivate First Class · Panel 28E, Line 2
- JOSEPH WILDER PRANGEPrivate First Class · Panel 28E, Line 4
- RICHARD MCGREGORPrivate First Class · Panel 28E, Line 5
- LAWRENCE ADAM WOJCIKPrivate First Class · Panel 28E, Line 6
From Trenton
- LEON JOSEPH KRAMERCaptain · January 31, 1963
- CARL ROBERT STEFFENPrivate First Class · December 25, 1965
- DENNIS JAMES BROPHYPrivate First Class · January 29, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD THOMPSONSergeant · February 13, 1966
- SHERMAN CHAPMAN JRSergeant First Class · June 23, 1966
- CLIFFORD RUSSELL STOUTPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- JOHN DONALD OSSMENPrivate First Class · February 21, 1967
- WILLIE DOWLING JRSpecialist Four · March 11, 1967
- ERWIN JOHN HAARWALDTPrivate First Class · March 20, 1967
- JOHN STEPHEN SZYMANSKIStaff Sergeant · March 23, 1967
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.