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JAMES DEAN ROY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 29, 1947 – May 8, 1968
Service recordJames Dean Roy, of Norris City, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57E · 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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Norris City, Illinois (White County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
78 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1968; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 236 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57E, Line 9
- ALVIN LEWIS PRESTONPrivate First Class · May 8, 1968
- JEFFERY MICHAEL QUIRKSpecialist Four · May 8, 1968
- RONALD DOUGLAS RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · May 8, 1968
- DAVID B RODMANCaptain · May 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- SAMUEL PORTER BEAUFORDPrivate First Class · Panel 56E, Line 35
- ANDRE MAURICE BROOKSPrivate · Panel 56E, Line 35
- DAVID STEARNS EASTONSpecialist Four · Panel 57E, Line 2
- FREDERICK JARRETTPrivate First Class · Panel 57E, Line 4
- THOMAS JACK LANSDENPrivate First Class · Panel 57E, Line 5
- VICTOR LEE LAYNESpecialist Four · Panel 57E, Line 6
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.