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ROBERT PAUL LYONS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 10, 1943 – April 6, 1969
Service recordRobert Paul Lyons, of Wichita, Kansas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 6, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 25
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 10, 1943
- Home of record
- Wichita, Kansas (Sedgwick County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 6, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date April 6, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 83 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 25
- LAWRENCE ARCHIE HILKINPrivate First Class · April 6, 1969
- MICHAEL JOHN KELLYPrivate First Class · April 6, 1969
- DAREN LEE KOENIGSergeant · April 6, 1969
- MELVIN LEESpecialist Four · April 6, 1969
From Wichita
- RICHARD DEAN SMITHLieutenant Colonel · March 11, 1965
- GARY LYNN DICKEYLance Corporal · July 23, 1965
- LOUIS DON ROYSTON JRPrivate First Class · September 1, 1965
- REBEL LEE HOLCOMBSergeant · November 8, 1965
- HENRY GENTRY JRPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- DANIEL ALBERT DICKINSONSpecialist Four · December 6, 1965
- DONALD DEAN KARLINCorporal · December 18, 1965
- CHARLES RONALD GURTLERLance Corporal · April 21, 1966
- ROBERT GARY MALONECorporal · July 28, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD REIDPrivate First Class · August 26, 1966
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.