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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Louis Sas.

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ROBERT LOUIS SAS

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 11, 1942 – November 24, 1967

Service record

Robert Louis Sas, of Parma, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 24, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 81

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Supply Handler (56A)
Born
October 11, 1942
Home of record
Parma, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 24, 1967
Age
25
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date November 24, 1967; three of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 81

From Parma

All 34 names from Parma →

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.