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ROBERT WAYNE LUECKE
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
June 28, 1944 – March 2, 1968
Service recordRobert Wayne Luecke, of Parma, Ohio, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 2, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 36
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- June 28, 1944
- Home of record
- Parma, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 2, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
100 names on the Wall carry the date March 2, 1968; six of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 36
- JAMES RUFUS MATHISPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
- ROY ALAN MEIERPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
- CHARLES EDWARD MELOTTPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
- DAVID LAWRENCE MELTONPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- REX BRADFORD FREEMANStaff Sergeant · Panel 42E, Line 31
From Parma
- ROBERT LOUIS GUERINSpecialist Four · May 21, 1966
- MICHAEL THEODORE SUKARAPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- ALAN RALPH STEFFENStaff Sergeant · November 26, 1966
- TERRY LEE DAVISPetty Officer Third Class · February 24, 1967
- JOHN EARL SWEESYPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- TERENCE JOSEPH KILBANELance Corporal · July 6, 1967
- JAMES JOHN ZAVOCKYLieutenant (junior grade) · August 25, 1967
- RONALD BRIAN KERNERPrivate First Class · September 10, 1967
- ROBERT LOUIS SASPrivate First Class · November 24, 1967
- DONALD ALBERT BASALLALance Corporal · November 26, 1967
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.