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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Arthur Cleon Roesler.

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ARTHUR CLEON ROESLER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

February 26, 1947 – October 25, 1967

Service record

Arthur Cleon Roesler, of Robinson, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 25, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28E · Line 71

Position of Panel 28E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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 Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
February 26, 1947
Home of record
Robinson, Illinois (Crawford County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 25, 1967
Age
20
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date October 25, 1967; 18 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 94 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28E, Line 71

Same unit, same day

From Robinson

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.