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RODNEY WALTER PETERS
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
April 8, 1938 – November 1, 1968
Service recordRodney Walter Peters, of Grants Pass, Oregon, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 1, 1968, in Go Cong Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 3
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
- Radioman (RM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USS WESTCHESTER COUNTY LST 1167
- Born
- April 8, 1938
- Home of record
- Grants Pass, Oregon (Josephine County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 1, 1968
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Go Cong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
67 names on the Wall carry the date November 1, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Go Cong Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USS WESTCHESTER COUNTY LST 1167”, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 3
- EASON JASPER MAXEYSpecialist Four · November 1, 1968
- DENNIS KENNETH OCONNORSergeant · November 1, 1968
- DANIEL CHARLES PATTERSONPrivate First Class · November 1, 1968
- MARVIN NORBERT PROPSONSpecialist Four · November 1, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JACKIE CHARLES CARTERSeaman Apprentice · Panel 40W, Line 71
- RICHARD CORTEZ CARTWRIGHTPetty Officer First Class · Panel 40W, Line 71
- TIMOTHY CHARLES DUNNINGSeaman · Panel 40W, Line 71
- THOMAS GEORGE FUNKEPetty Officer Second Class · Panel 40W, Line 72
- KEITH WILLIAM DUFFYPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 40W, Line 74
- DAVID GLEASON FELLPetty Officer Second Class · Panel 40W, Line 75
- CHESTER DONALD DALEPetty Officer Second Class · Panel 40W, Line 76
- GERALD EUGENE BOOTH HAMMPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 40W, Line 76
- FLOYD W HOUGHTALING IIISeaman · Panel 40W, Line 77
- ARISTOTOLES DEL R IBANEZPetty Officer First Class · Panel 40W, Line 77
- JERRY SMITH LEONARDPetty Officer First Class · Panel 39W, Line 1
- JOSEPH ANTHONY MILLER JRPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 39W, Line 2
- CARY FRANK RUNDLEPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 39W, Line 4
- REINHARD J SCHNURRER JRPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 39W, Line 4
- THOMAS HERBERT SMITHPetty Officer Second Class · Panel 39W, Line 4
- ANTHONY RICHARD TORCIVIAPetty Officer First Class · Panel 39W, Line 5
From Grants Pass
- GROVER KONARD OLSONPrivate First Class · January 17, 1964
- ROBERT LEE VESTSergeant · November 5, 1966
- JOHN FREDERICK FLEMINGSpecialist Four · April 29, 1967
- STEPHEN LOUIS HOCKPetty Officer Second Class · July 29, 1967
- CECIL LEE JONESPrivate First Class · April 1, 1968
- ROBERT BRUCE THOMPSONCorporal · April 20, 1968
- GREGORY JOE STAPLESPrivate First Class · May 2, 1968
- FERROL SHANE SMITHPrivate First Class · March 27, 1969
- WILLIAM NORMAN JENSEN JRSergeant · May 22, 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.