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RODNEY GLENN OXENDINE
Corporal · U.S. Army
May 17, 1948 – August 12, 1969
Service recordRodney Glenn Oxendine, of Yorktown, Virginia, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on August 12, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 19
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Yorktown, Virginia (York County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 12, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
105 names on the Wall carry the date August 12, 1969; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 19W, Line 19
- WALLACE THOMSON MCMAKINPrivate First Class · August 12, 1969
- ROBERT ANTHONY OCONNORConstructionman · August 12, 1969
- SAMUEL ALEXANDER PAPIN JRPrivate First Class · August 12, 1969
- CARL PARTONStaff Sergeant · August 12, 1969
From Yorktown
- DOUGLAS WARREN HOGGELance Corporal · June 5, 1966
- JAMES DOIL RADERCorporal · December 6, 1967
- ROBERT EUGENE MOSSMajor · March 1, 1968
- MELVIN DOUGLAS RASHChief Master Sergeant · May 22, 1968
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.