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ROBERT JOSEPH MULLENS JR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
May 13, 1945 – January 23, 1970
Service recordRobert Joseph Mullens JR, of New York, New York, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 23, 1970, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14W · Line 58
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 13, 1945
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 23, 1970
- Age
- 24
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1970. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 14W, Line 58
- DONALD HENRY MAJKOWSKICorporal · January 22, 1970
- LOWRENZO NEELEYCorporal · January 22, 1970
- GEORGE DEWEY QUICK JRPrivate First Class · January 22, 1970
- DEAN ALLEN BORNEMANSpecialist Four · January 23, 1970
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.