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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Edmund Edward Roberge.

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EDMUND EDWARD ROBERGE

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

July 3, 1932 – March 16, 1971

Service record

Edmund Edward Roberge, of Manchester, New Hampshire, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 16, 1971, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4W · Line 53

Position of Panel 4W 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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Counterintelligence Analyst (97B)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
July 3, 1932
Home of record
Manchester, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 16, 1971
Age
38
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1971; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4W, Line 53

From Manchester

All 38 names from Manchester →

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.