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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Rodger Dale Hebert.

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RODGER DALE HEBERT

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

October 31, 1946 – June 15, 1968

Service record

Rodger Dale Hebert, of Port Arthur, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 15, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 57W · Line 27

Position of Panel 57W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Rifleman (0311)
Born
October 31, 1946
Home of record
Port Arthur, Texas (Jefferson County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 15, 1968
Age
21
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

60 names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1968; 23 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 57W, Line 27

From Port Arthur

All 15 names from Port Arthur →

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.