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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Roger Dale Bell.

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ROGER DALE BELL

Corporal · U.S. Army

September 17, 1942 – September 4, 1968

Service record

Roger Dale Bell, of Clover Garden, North Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on September 4, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 45W · Line 35

Position of Panel 45W 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. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
September 17, 1942
Home of record
Clover Garden, North Carolina (Alamance County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 4, 1968
Age
25
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date September 4, 1968; eight of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 45W, Line 35

Same unit, same day

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.