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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Roger Dahl Jackman.

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ROGER DAHL JACKMAN

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

September 11, 1941 – June 9, 1966

Service record

Roger Dahl Jackman, of Salt Lake City, Utah, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 9, 1966, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 27

Position of Panel 8E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Unit (as recorded)
G CO 2 BN 5 MAR
Born
September 11, 1941
Home of record
Salt Lake City, Utah (Salt Lake County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 9, 1966
Age
24
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date June 9, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 27

From Salt Lake City

All 123 names from Salt Lake City →

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.