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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 Thomas Lohman.

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ROBERT THOMAS LOHMAN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 6, 1947 – August 8, 1967

Service record

Robert Thomas Lohman, of Woodland Hills, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 8, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24E · Line 91

Position of Panel 24E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
December 6, 1947
Home of record
Woodland Hills, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 8, 1967
Age
19
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date August 8, 1967; six of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 24E, Line 91

Same unit, same day

From Woodland Hills

All 14 names from Woodland Hills →

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.