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ROBERT LEE BURDETTE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 30, 1947 – March 25, 1967
Service recordRobert Lee Burdette, of Poca, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 43
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- April 30, 1947
- Home of record
- Poca, West Virginia (Putnam County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1967; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 43
- RAYMOND ROGER DEMOEPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- JAMES WILLIAM EVANSPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- ALBERT CLIFTON FILES JRSergeant · March 25, 1967
- PEDRO INCARNACION GARCIASergeant · March 25, 1967
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH JOHNSONSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 44
- DONALD MILLSStaff Sergeant · Panel 17E, Line 45
From Poca
- MARK JOSEPH HAVERLAND JRSergeant · May 21, 1969
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.