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WILLIAM ROBERT BURT JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
September 21, 1944 – July 11, 1969
Service recordWilliam Robert Burt JR, of New York, New York, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on July 11, 1969, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 98
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Cannon Fire Direction Specialist (13E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- September 21, 1944
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 11, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date July 11, 1969; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 98
- PATRICK LYNN BASILESergeant · July 11, 1969
- ROBERT BATES JRPrivate First Class · July 11, 1969
- NORMAN HUBERT BLOOMFIELDSergeant · July 11, 1969
- MARK LEROY BRUNERPrivate First Class · July 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM CARROLL HELMSpecialist Four · Panel 21W, Line 101
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.