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LEE ROY HODGES
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 16, 1939 – October 16, 1967
Service recordLee Roy Hodges, of Memphis, Texas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 16, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 15
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Power Generation Equipment Repairer (52D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- September 16, 1939
- Home of record
- Memphis, Texas (Hall County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 16, 1967
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date October 16, 1967; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28E, Line 15
- RICHARD DUANE APPELHANSMajor · October 16, 1967
- MICHAEL FINLAY FIELDMajor · October 16, 1967
- HARVEY RICKERT HOWARDSpecialist Four · October 16, 1967
- BERNARD FRANCIS JONESCaptain · October 16, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROGER ELLIS JARVISSergeant First Class · Panel 28E, Line 13
- BERNARD FRANCIS JONESCaptain · Panel 28E, Line 15
From Memphis
- ROGER GALE JUSTUSSpecialist Four · November 30, 1967
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.