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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Lee Henneghan.

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ROBERT LEE HENNEGHAN

Sergeant · U.S. Army

March 21, 1947 – September 27, 1969

Service record

Robert Lee Henneghan, of Coward, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 27, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 17W · Line 13

Position of Panel 17W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
March 21, 1947
Home of record
Coward, South Carolina (Florence County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 27, 1969
Age
22
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date September 27, 1969; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.

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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.