Rank: Private First Class
Unit: L Troop, 3rd 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: 16-Mar-1947
Hometown: Bellerose, New York
Marital status: Married to Lorraine L. Wozniak
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 21-Oct-1967
Incident date: 11-Jan-1968
Date of casualty: 13-Jan-1968
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died of wounds. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Robert Andrew Wozniak died as the result of multiple metal fragment wounds received while passenger in a military vehicle which was hit by hostile anti-tank round during combat operation 11 Jan 1968.
Two Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
PFC William Paul Smith
PFC Robert Andrew Wozniak
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Long Island National Cemetery, East Farmingdale, New York, USA
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