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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 Morningstar.

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ROBERT LEE MORNINGSTAR

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

January 31, 1935 – July 5, 1967

Service record

Robert Lee Morningstar, of Warfordsburg, Pennsylvania, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 5, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 23E · Line 13

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
Born
January 31, 1935
Home of record
Warfordsburg, Pennsylvania (Fulton County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 5, 1967
Age
32
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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37 names on the Wall carry the date July 5, 1967; eight of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 23E, Line 13

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.