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DENNIS LEE ROADS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 23, 1949 – April 8, 1969
Service recordDennis Lee Roads, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 8, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 37
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 23, 1949
- Home of record
- Hattiesburg, Mississippi (Forrest County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 8, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1969; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 83 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 37
- DONALD RAY COOPERCorporal · April 8, 1969
- KENNETH JULIAN ELLINGTONSpecialist Four · April 8, 1969
- ROBERT ALAN FULKERSONSpecialist Four · April 8, 1969
- CHRISTIAN GEORGE GIRARDSergeant First Class · April 8, 1969
Same unit, same day
- TONY PALACIOSSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 40
- TOWNSER STEELE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 27W, Line 41
- JIMMY ROGER WESTMORELANDPrivate First Class · Panel 27W, Line 43
From Hattiesburg
- JAMES WILLIAM SIZEMOREWarrant Officer 1 · November 4, 1965
- CECIL DOUGLAS BRELANDPrivate First Class · May 6, 1966
- OLIVER WENDELL MYERSPrivate First Class · April 11, 1967
- THOMAS DEVECMON OTT IIAirman · July 29, 1967
- PAUL MELVYN DOUGLASStaff Sergeant · February 21, 1968
- JOHNNY RAY BURTONSpecialist Four · March 9, 1968
- MELVIN STETTINIUS LAMARCorporal · July 19, 1968
- EDWARD ERNEST MCBRIDEMajor · November 27, 1968
- ELIJAH WALLACE BURKETTSpecialist Four · July 10, 1969
- ROGER DALE SUMRALLSergeant · July 2, 1970
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.