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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Lee Boyer.

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ROBERT LEE BOYER

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

December 16, 1946 – December 28, 1967

Service record

Robert Lee Boyer, of Long Beach, California, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 28, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 84

Position of Panel 32E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
December 16, 1946
Home of record
Long Beach, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 28, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date December 28, 1967; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 84

From Long Beach

All 101 names from Long Beach →

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.