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A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968.
A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968. Photo: Sgt. William F. Dickman, USMC, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Thomas Razzano.

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ROBERT THOMAS RAZZANO

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

July 8, 1946 – August 21, 1969

Service record

Robert Thomas Razzano, of Cohoes, New York, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 21, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19W · Line 89

Position of Panel 19W 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Born
July 8, 1946
Home of record
Cohoes, New York (Albany County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 21, 1969
Age
23
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date August 21, 1969; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 19W, Line 89

From Cohoes

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.