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ROGER CARL HENRY ACKERMAN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 20, 1937 – May 7, 1968
Service recordRoger Carl Henry Ackerman, of Lowell, Wisconsin, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 7, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 56E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56E · Line 20
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 20, 1937
- Home of record
- Lowell, Wisconsin (Dodge County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 7, 1968
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 7, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 56E, Line 20
- GARY LEROY BRADEESergeant · May 7, 1968
- ALLEN ROYAL BRADFORDCorporal · May 7, 1968
- RANDELL HEATHE BURNSEDPrivate First Class · May 7, 1968
- RICHARD MICHAEL CAMPBELLSergeant · May 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GARY EDWARD HOWARDPrivate First Class · Panel 56E, Line 25
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.