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ROGER CLAYTON BRATHWAITE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 19, 1948 – July 16, 1969
Service recordRoger Clayton Brathwaite, of New York, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 16, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 19, 1948
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 16, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date July 16, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 5
- JERRY ARTHUR BUNNFirst Lieutenant · July 16, 1969
- DUANE JACOB CABALAPrivate First Class · July 16, 1969
- STEPHEN RANDALL COSTELLOCorporal · July 16, 1969
- CARL EDWIN CUNNINGHAMPrivate First Class · July 16, 1969
Same unit, same day
- BENJAMIN JOSEPH SULLIVANPrivate First Class · Panel 20W, Line 9
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 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.