Achas, Robert John
Marines Lance corporal

Robert John Achas, age 22, from Springfield, Illinois, Sangamon county.

Parents: Anthony J. Achas said “I guess about all you can say is that it is a misfortune of war.”

Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Griffin High (1962)

Date of death: Sunday, March 14, 1965
Death details: Died of rifle shot wounds inflicted March 14 when his fire team returned to where they had left another member. They apparently returned from a direction different from the one the guard expected and he fired thinking it was the Viet Cong. Robert was killed instantly
Cemetery: Camp Butler National

Source: National Archives, Abilene Reporter (1965), findagrave.com