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ROGER BURNS INNES
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
March 29, 1943 – December 27, 1967
Service recordRoger Burns Innes, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 27, 1967, in North Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 74
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
- Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1325)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VF 114
- Born
- March 29, 1943
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 27, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
88 names on the Wall carry the date December 27, 1967. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VF 114”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 32E, Line 74
- THOMAS SIMCOCK HUBBELLCaptain · December 27, 1967
- MITCHELL HUGHES JRLance Corporal · December 27, 1967
- THORNTON ISHAM JACKSONCorporal · December 27, 1967
- JAMES LOUIS JAKOLance Corporal · December 27, 1967
Same unit, same day
- LEONARD MURRAY LEECommander · Panel 32E, Line 76
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 1965
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.