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JOHN WAYNE ROBERTS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 5, 1949 – October 14, 1967
Service recordJohn Wayne Roberts, of South Portland, Maine, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 14, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 4
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- March 5, 1949
- Home of record
- South Portland, Maine (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 14, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date October 14, 1967; 27 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 28E, Line 4
- JOSEPH WILDER PRANGEPrivate First Class · October 14, 1967
- RONALD LUDWIG RADILSpecialist Four · October 14, 1967
- ROBERT CHARLES RUDDSergeant · October 14, 1967
- MORRIS JOSEPH SENSATLance Corporal · October 14, 1967
From South Portland
- GEORGE ROBERT DARLINGSeaman · June 16, 1966
- DANIEL PAUL TUELLPrivate First Class · December 5, 1966
- ROBERT W TEWKSBURYCorporal · December 7, 1967
- CHRISTOPHER JOHN TOPPICorporal · January 27, 1968
- WILLIAM GLEN FERGUSON JRCorporal · October 1, 1968
- JAMES ALEXANDER BAKASpecialist Four · April 18, 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.