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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 Lucian Mlynarski.

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ROBERT LUCIAN MLYNARSKI

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

October 31, 1946 – November 25, 1967

Service record

Robert Lucian Mlynarski, of New Britain, Connecticut, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 25, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 86

Position of Panel 30E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
October 31, 1946
Home of record
New Britain, Connecticut (Hartford County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 25, 1967
Age
21
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date November 25, 1967; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 86

Same unit, same day

From New Britain

All 24 names from New Britain →

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.