Rank: Specialist 5
Unit: D Company, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11E – Armor Crewman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 13-Jul-1948
Hometown: Toledo, Ohio
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 4-Apr-1968
Start of tour: 30-Aug-1968
Incident date: 19-Jun-1969
Date of casualty: 19-Jun-1969
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Victor Thomas Schaffer was killed while the driver of a military vehicle on a combat operation when a hostile force was encountered. / Driver of tank on combat operation. Hit by fragments from hostile mine.
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam, XT 817 496
Place of interment: Ottawa Hills Memorial Park, Toledo, Ohio, USA
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