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RODNEY DOUGLAS PICKETT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 28, 1947 – May 24, 1967
Service recordRodney Douglas Pickett, of Coeburn, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 24, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 97
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Coeburn, Virginia (Wise County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 24, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date May 24, 1967; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 87 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 97
- BRIAN ROSS NORFLEETPrivate First Class · May 24, 1967
- STEPHEN JOHN OSHEAPrivate First Class · May 24, 1967
- JAMES BARNETT PATTERSONSergeant First Class · May 24, 1967
- JOHNNY CALVIN PRESTONSergeant · May 24, 1967
- FRED STEWART ROTHPrivate First Class · May 24, 1967
Same unit, same day
- MARK ANTHONY ANDERSONPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 93
- MELVIN ELMER HOFFMANPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 95
- RONALD RAY JOSEPHPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 95
From Coeburn
- DAVID ESTRADALance Corporal · March 26, 1967
- JAMES WILFRED CLEMENTMajor · March 11, 1970
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.