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DENNIS RAY ROBERTS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 4, 1949 – August 3, 1969
Service recordDennis Ray Roberts, of Milltown, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 3, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 93
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Central Office Switchboard Operator (72C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- September 4, 1949
- Home of record
- Milltown, Indiana (Crawford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 3, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date August 3, 1969; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 93
- TERRENCE M MCDERMOTTFirst Lieutenant · August 3, 1969
- CARL EUGENE MORGANPrivate First Class · August 3, 1969
- GEORGE CRAIG SCHOETTNERSpecialist Four · August 3, 1969
- PHILLIP CHARLES SMITHSpecialist Four · August 3, 1969
Same unit, same day
- STEPHEN EUGENE SROKAPrivate First Class · Panel 20W, Line 94
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.