Tributes This Memorial Page Established by- OFS ROBERT SCOTT BYRNES is honored on Panel 38E, Row 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Full Name: ROBERT SCOTT BYRNES Wall Name: ROBERT S BYRNES Date of Birth: 12/16/1944 Date of Casualty: 2/9/1968 Home of Record: CARMICHAEL State: CA Branch of Service: ARMY Rank: 1LT Casualty Country: SOUTH VIETNAM Casualty Province: QUANG NAM March 04, 2012 J.M. Byrnes (brother ) IN LOVING MEMORY OF US ARMY First Lieutenant .ROBERT ( BOB ) BYRNES ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------KIA 1968 Panel 38E Line 046 · Pleasure to meet you. My name First Lieutenant Robert (Bob) Byrnes Everyone has a tale to tell. Some great and some not so. mine ended like this ........................................................... I had such a blast in high school. Before high school I went to Our Lady of the Assumption Schooland the new Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish then off to La Sierra High School. I enjoyed being on the swim team, Coach Stan LeProtti and his physical fitness program were the best; we had great teachers at La Sierra High School. I worked at Carmichael Recreaton and Park District as a lifeguard, and attended American River JR. College I was on the water polo team there as well. I then found a job with Ma Bell (Pacific Bell) so as you know Uncle Sam needed some help so I enlisted in the U.S. Army, June 1965, went to Fort Ord Ca., then off to Fort Sill Ok.(OCS) school . Received my LT. bars and proudly my father pinned his LT. BARS on me. In July 1967 I was off to Vietnam. Just before Vietnam I met my wife at the Western Drive Inn in Downtown Carmichael and we were married on my R & R in Hi. January 1968 my best man was my RTO CPL Darrel A. Bondrowski, from Boothw! yn, PA we were KIA together on Feb. 9th 1968. ROBERT ( BOB ) BYRNES, 1LT, Army, 1LT Byrnes was assigned to Battery A, 3rd Battalion, 82nd Artillery, 196th Light Infantry Brigade. He was killed in action during a firefight while serving as a Forward Observer with Company D, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry. The Tet Offensive began in late January 1968 and heavy fighting continued through February. In Quang Nam Province, the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry, lost fourteen men near Lo Giang on 9 Feb 1968 |
| 1LT Robert S. Byrnes United States Army KIA 09 February 1968, Quang Nam, S. Vietnam |
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