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FRANCIS L ROSSELL JR
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
December 26, 1943 – October 28, 1968
Service recordFrancis L Rossell JR, of Haddonfield, New Jersey, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 28, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 50
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- BLT 2 26 MAR 9 MAB
- Born
- December 26, 1943
- Home of record
- Haddonfield, New Jersey (Camden County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 28, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 28, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 50
- REGINALD WALTER MERRIMANSergeant · October 28, 1968
- JAY WAYNE PAROLASpecialist Four · October 28, 1968
- DONALD THOMAS PENNEYFirst Lieutenant · October 28, 1968
- WILLIAM ERNEST RICKERLieutenant Commander · October 28, 1968
From Haddonfield
- RONALD LESLIE BONDCaptain · September 30, 1971
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.