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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 John Marshall Roe.

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JOHN MARSHALL ROE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

February 19, 1950 – November 16, 1970

Service record

John Marshall Roe, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 16, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6W · Line 64

Position of Panel 6W 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.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
February 19, 1950
Home of record
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 16, 1970
Age
20
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date November 16, 1970; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6W, Line 64

Same unit, same day

From Milwaukee

All 204 names from Milwaukee →

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.