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JAMES HOUSTON ROULETT
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
November 14, 1933 – June 27, 1968
Service recordJames Houston Roulett, of Maryville, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 27, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 7
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Firefighter (51M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- November 14, 1933
- Home of record
- Maryville, Tennessee (Blount County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 27, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date June 27, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54W, Line 7
- VINCENT FRANK GIAMMARINOSergeant First Class · June 27, 1968
- MICHAEL EARL WALKERCorporal · June 27, 1968
- MELVIN RICHARD WHITEChief Warrant Officer 2 · June 27, 1968
- JAMES BENJAMIN WHITTIERPrivate · June 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ELTON STANTON STALLSSpecialist Five · Panel 54W, Line 5
- BENNIE EDWARD HODGESSergeant First Class · Panel 54W, Line 6
- MELVIN RICHARD WHITEChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 54W, Line 7
From Maryville
- FRED CALVIN RUSSELLSergeant First Class · February 10, 1967
- WAYNE OLIVER GAYPrivate First Class · March 23, 1967
- OSCAR ROBERT PARROTTLance Corporal · May 4, 1967
- DONALD CLAY COULTERPrivate First Class · August 7, 1967
- ROBERT LEE ROGERSPrivate First Class · January 13, 1968
- WILLIAM CARL HOPPERPrivate First Class · March 7, 1968
- WAYNE CHARLES WILLIAMSCorporal · June 26, 1968
- GORDON LEE WHEELERStaff Sergeant · March 8, 1969
- THOMAS JACKSON GRINDSTAFFSpecialist Five · March 21, 1969
- JOHNNY LEON BRYANTCaptain · May 22, 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.