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DOUGLAS RAY ROEST
Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 18, 1951 – March 13, 1970
Service recordDouglas Ray Roest, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 123 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13W · Line 123
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 18, 1951
- Home of record
- Kenosha, Wisconsin (Kenosha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1970
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1970; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 13W, Line 123
- DAVID WAYNE MARTINPrivate · March 13, 1970
- DARWIN STUART PETERSONPrivate First Class · March 13, 1970
- JOSEPH MARION PILOTTESergeant · March 13, 1970
- KENNETH WAYNE PREVOSTSpecialist Five · March 13, 1970
Same unit, same day
- ALLAN RUTTIMANNSergeant · Panel 13W, Line 124
- THOMAS URQUHARTCorporal · Panel 13W, Line 125
From Kenosha
- PEKKA TRUNKHAHNSpecialist Four · May 16, 1966
- WILLIAM RAY HILLCaptain · April 16, 1967
- JAMES LEE VANBENDEGOMStaff Sergeant · July 12, 1967
- RAY ARTHUR SCHOLDSpecialist Four · September 3, 1967
- RAYMOND EDWARD MILADINPrivate First Class · November 9, 1967
- RALEIGH L HEWITT IIWarrant Officer 1 · November 14, 1967
- JOEL ALOIS MATUSEKSecond Lieutenant · November 27, 1967
- JAMES E LYNNSergeant First Class · December 15, 1967
- MURRAY WAYNE VANLONE SRStaff Sergeant · January 20, 1968
- GERALD ROBERT ANDERSONSpecialist Four · February 4, 1968
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.