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EDWARD FRANCIS ROGERS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 29, 1948 – March 12, 1968
Service recordEdward Francis Rogers, of Roslindale, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 12, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 30
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- F CO 2/4 9 MAB FMF
- Born
- September 29, 1948
- Home of record
- Roslindale, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 44E, Line 30
- ROBERT WAYNE ODONNELLPrivate · March 12, 1968
- GARY WILLIAM PERKINSCaptain · March 12, 1968
- ROBERT COLQUITT PLEMMONSPetty Officer Third Class · March 12, 1968
- DONALD ROBERT ROBISONCaptain · March 12, 1968
From Roslindale
- CARL EDGAR ANDERSONPrivate First Class · October 9, 1965
- EDWARD THOMAS EGAN JRPrivate First Class · April 21, 1967
- GEORGE JOSEPH GOTTWALD JRSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD JOHNSON JRPrivate · April 26, 1969
- THOMAS MICHAEL RALSTONCorporal · August 22, 1969
- WILLIAM F MCLAUGHLINPrivate First Class · October 4, 1969
- NICKOLAUS CHARLES ZOZULASpecialist Four · November 2, 1969
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.