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HENRY LEWIS ROGERS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 2, 1948 – November 29, 1968
Service recordHenry Lewis Rogers, of Owingsville, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 29, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 9
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- November 2, 1948
- Home of record
- Owingsville, Kentucky (Bath County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 29, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 9
- ARTHUR EDWARD BADER JRSergeant First Class · July 29, 1968
- JOHN RAY WILLIAMSSergeant · November 29, 1968
- GEORGE BERKLEY ALGERSpecialist Five · November 30, 1968
- RICHARD DICK AMBRUSOSpecialist Four · November 30, 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.