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ROBERT WILLIAM MOINESTER
Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy
July 15, 1943 – January 31, 1968
Service recordRobert William Moinester, of Lynbrook, New York, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 31, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · 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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1105)
- Unit (as recorded)
- NSA DANANG USNAVFORV
- Born
- July 15, 1943
- Home of record
- Lynbrook, New York (Nassau County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 28 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 25
- JOHNNY MEDINAPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- RUSSELL E MILBERRYPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- ROGER BERTHA MILLSSergeant · January 31, 1968
- THOMAS WOODROW MOORESpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
From Lynbrook
- MICHAEL PATRICK DONLONSergeant · June 5, 1966
- LOUIS EDWARD PIZZUTOPrivate First Class · January 13, 1967
- PATRICK GALLAGHERCorporal · March 30, 1967
- MARTIN LOUIS PLOTKINSpecialist Four · June 17, 1967
- JAMES CALVIN COCKERLSecond Lieutenant · May 19, 1969
- ROBERT ALFRED LODGEMajor · May 10, 1972
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.