The WallVietnam Veterans Memorial · The Lake Norman Brief
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 Henry Neil Rockower.

The Wall › Panel 12W › Pennsylvania › Henry Neil Rockower

HENRY NEIL ROCKOWER

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

April 27, 1946 – April 2, 1970

Service record

Henry Neil Rockower, of Merion Station, Pennsylvania, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 2, 1970, in Ba Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12W · Line 84

Position of Panel 12W 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.

See this name on the Wall

Remember

Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.

Share a photo or memoryPhotos & remembrances on VVMF’s Wall of Faces ↗

Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
April 27, 1946
Home of record
Merion Station, Pennsylvania (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 2, 1970
Age
23
Province
Ba Xugen
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date April 2, 1970; he was the only one lost in Ba Xugen Province that day. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.

Read the history

On the Wall

Elsewhere

Also on Panel 12W, Line 84

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.