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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert List Lee JR.

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ROBERT LIST LEE JR

Captain · U.S. Army

November 1, 1943 – November 23, 1967

Service record

Robert List Lee JR, of Miami, Florida, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on November 23, 1967, in Ninh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 71

Position of Panel 30E 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
Captain (CPT)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
HHC 2 BN 502 INF
Born
November 1, 1943
Home of record
Miami, Florida (Dade County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 23, 1967
Age
24
Province
Ninh Thuan
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date November 23, 1967; he was the only one lost in Ninh Thuan Province that day. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 71

From Miami

All 179 names from Miami →

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.