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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 Worden.

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ROBERT LEE WORDEN

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

October 2, 1947 – May 15, 1969

Service record

Robert Lee Worden, of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 15, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24W · Line 24

Position of Panel 24W 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
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
October 2, 1947
Home of record
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania (Clinton County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 15, 1969
Age
21
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Burns/Smoke Inhalation

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1969; 19 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 34 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 24W, Line 24

From Lock Haven

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.