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HAYWOOD RODGERS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 23, 1945 – August 14, 1971
Service recordHaywood Rodgers, of Siler City, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 14, 1971, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 131 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 131
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- December 23, 1945
- Home of record
- Siler City, North Carolina (Chatham County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 14, 1971
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
Two names on the Wall carry the date August 14, 1971; two of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In August 1971, 116 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 3W, Line 131
- LAWRENCE BARBE COLEMAN JRPrivate First Class · August 13, 1971
- MARK HASKIN EATONStaff Sergeant · August 13, 1971
- JOHN FREDERICK PEPINSpecialist Four · August 13, 1971
- FLOYD WILLIAM KOTEWA JRSergeant · August 14, 1971
Same unit, same day
- FLOYD WILLIAM KOTEWA JRSergeant · Panel 3W, Line 131
From Siler City
- JIMMY LOUIS SILERPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
- EZEKIEL PAIGESergeant · March 31, 1968
- HAROLD LEE GLOVERCorporal · November 23, 1968
- WALTER GUY WICKER JRCorporal · October 14, 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.