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ORLANDO SILAS ROACH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 21, 1941 – October 27, 1966
Service recordOrlando Silas Roach, of Eagle Butte, South Dakota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 27, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 120 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 120
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- October 21, 1941
- Home of record
- Eagle Butte, South Dakota (Dewey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 27, 1966
- Age
- 25
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date October 27, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 11E, Line 120
- HOWARD CLINTON ROBINSONPrivate First Class · October 27, 1966
- GARY GRANT RUSHINGPrivate First Class · October 27, 1966
- WALTER JAMES ACKWOODPrivate First Class · October 28, 1966
- MICHAEL JOHN BOSKO JRSpecialist Four · October 28, 1966
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.