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ROBERT RUSSELL ROGERS
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
November 22, 1938 – June 3, 1967
Service recordRobert Russell Rogers, of Cairo, Georgia, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 3, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 52
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- November 22, 1938
- Home of record
- Cairo, Georgia (Grady County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 3, 1967
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date June 3, 1967; 41 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21E, Line 52
- LARRY VENCIL SAYERSCorporal · June 3, 1967
- STEVEN EDWARD SCHARLACHPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- CHARLES JOSEPH SCHULTZSecond Lieutenant · June 3, 1967
- CLIFFORD SHEPHERDPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
From Cairo
- EDWARD WRAY KINESCorporal · September 10, 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.