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ROBERT LANSING BURRELL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 26, 1946 – January 17, 1968
Service recordRobert Lansing Burrell, of Carthage, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 17, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 62
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Carthage, New York (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 17, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date January 17, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 62
- DONALD LEE CHANEYSergeant First Class · January 17, 1968
- WILLIE DURANTPrivate First Class · January 17, 1968
- PAUL JOHN GREENWOODSpecialist Four · January 17, 1968
- RONALD LEE STROOMERPrivate First Class · January 17, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LARRY STEPHEN SEMENIUKCorporal · Panel 34E, Line 64
From Carthage
- RICHARD K FINSTERWALDERPrivate First Class · November 22, 1966
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.