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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert James Lazaro.

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ROBERT JAMES LAZARO

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

March 29, 1947 – October 9, 1967

Service record

Robert James Lazaro, of Glendora, New Jersey, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 9, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 82

Position of Panel 27E 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
Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
March 29, 1947
Home of record
Glendora, New Jersey (Camden County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 9, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date October 9, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 82

Same unit, same day

From Glendora

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.