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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 James Shurr.

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ROBERT JAMES SHURR

Specialist Six · U.S. Army

December 12, 1945 – April 13, 1970

Service record

Robert James Shurr, of Ellsworth, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Six in the U.S. Army. He died on April 13, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 11W · Line 2

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Six (SP6)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Field Artillery Meteorological Crewmember (93F)
Unit (as recorded)
1 BN 39 ARTY 108 ARTY GRP
Born
December 12, 1945
Home of record
Ellsworth, Minnesota (Nobles County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 13, 1970
Age
24
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

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25 names on the Wall carry the date April 13, 1970; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 11W, Line 2

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.