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ROBERT LOUIS GUERIN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 1, 1946 – May 21, 1966
Service recordRobert Louis Guerin, of Parma, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 96
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 1, 1946
- Home of record
- Parma, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 21, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date May 21, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 7E, Line 96
- BRUCE FRANKLIN GRIFFINPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
- PAUL JAMES HARRISONSpecialist Four · May 21, 1966
- MICHAEL LEE KINGPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
- MARSHAL JUNIOR ONEALCorporal · May 21, 1966
Same unit, same day
- WALTER WILLIAM PHELPSSergeant · Panel 7E, Line 98
From Parma
- MICHAEL THEODORE SUKARAPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- ALAN RALPH STEFFENStaff Sergeant · November 26, 1966
- TERRY LEE DAVISPetty Officer Third Class · February 24, 1967
- JOHN EARL SWEESYPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- TERENCE JOSEPH KILBANELance Corporal · July 6, 1967
- JAMES JOHN ZAVOCKYLieutenant (junior grade) · August 25, 1967
- RONALD BRIAN KERNERPrivate First Class · September 10, 1967
- ROBERT LOUIS SASPrivate First Class · November 24, 1967
- DONALD ALBERT BASALLALance Corporal · November 26, 1967
- EDWARD WILLIAM HEIFNERPrivate First Class · January 25, 1968
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.