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ROBERT WILLIS RAETZ
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 30, 1946 – April 10, 1967
Service recordRobert Willis Raetz, of Burt, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 10, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 12
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- October 30, 1946
- Home of record
- Burt, New York (Niagara County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 10, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date April 10, 1967; five of them were lost in Long An Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 12
- JOHN FRANCIS OGRADYColonel · April 10, 1967
- MARVIN GENE SMITHPrivate First Class · April 10, 1967
- ISUM MERRILL WALKERCorporal · April 10, 1967
- LEROY BOYD WEBBSecond Lieutenant · April 10, 1967
Same unit, same day
- HOWARD EUGENE BEAGLESergeant · Panel 18E, Line 8
- MICHAEL HUGH LAMBSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 11
- DONALD EUGENE LONGSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 11
- ISUM MERRILL WALKERCorporal · Panel 18E, Line 12
- LEROY BOYD WEBBSecond Lieutenant · Panel 18E, Line 12
- RICHARD ALLEN WILLIAMSSergeant · Panel 18E, Line 13
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.