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RALPH ROGER JUSTICE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 22, 1932 – January 6, 1967
Service recordRalph Roger Justice, of Granite City, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 6, 1967, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 119 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 119
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Cannon Crewmember (13B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- December 22, 1932
- Home of record
- Granite City, Illinois (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 6, 1967
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date January 6, 1967; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 119
- RONALD WAYNE PARKERPrivate First Class · January 6, 1967
- HAL JONES ROWLETTMaster Sergeant · January 6, 1967
- CHARLES THOMAS SHELTONSergeant · January 6, 1967
- DANNY CLEON BARNESPrivate First Class · January 7, 1967
From Granite City
- ROBERT EDWARD EMERYPrivate · December 9, 1965
- GENE E CHEPELYPrivate First Class · February 7, 1966
- JOHN BERNARD CAUSEYCaptain · February 25, 1966
- LOREN EUGENE BRADLEYPrivate First Class · April 29, 1966
- JAMES RAY DOWDYPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- JOE CARL LEUTENEGGERPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- RICHARD EUGENE SHILTSpecialist Four · August 17, 1967
- RICHARD JOHN GIEBECorporal · November 9, 1967
- MICHAEL EDWARD ADAMSSergeant · November 19, 1967
- WILLIAM CECIL HINKLEPrivate First Class · November 21, 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.