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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 Ned Sauls.

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ROBERT NED SAULS

Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Army

September 12, 1941 – March 11, 1969

Service record

Robert Ned Sauls, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Army. He died on March 11, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29W · Line 14

Position of Panel 29W 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
Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
1 FIELD FORCE
Born
September 12, 1941
Home of record
Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 11, 1969
Age
27
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

70 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1969. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 29W, Line 14

From Atlanta

All 188 names from Atlanta →

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.