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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 Trivisonno.

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ROBERT TRIVISONNO

Private · U.S. Army

February 1, 1948 – November 15, 1968

Service record

Robert Trivisonno, of North Bergen, New Jersey, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on November 15, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 39W · Line 71

Position of Panel 39W 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
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 LOGISTIC CMD
Born
February 1, 1948
Home of record
North Bergen, New Jersey (Hudson County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 15, 1968
Age
20
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date November 15, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 39W, Line 71

From North Bergen

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.