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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Lee Fuqua JR.

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ROBERT LEE FUQUA JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 27, 1947 – October 17, 1967

Service record

Robert Lee Fuqua JR, of Mansfield, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 17, 1967, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28E · Line 23

Position of Panel 28E 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
November 27, 1947
Home of record
Mansfield, Ohio (Richland County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 17, 1967
Age
19
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

75 names on the Wall carry the date October 17, 1967; 62 of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 105 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28E, Line 23

Same unit, same day

From Mansfield

All 33 names from Mansfield →

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.