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ROGER DALE CAUDILL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 6, 1947 – April 29, 1967
Service recordRoger Dale Caudill, of Whitesburg, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 29, 1967, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 113
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Whitesburg, Kentucky (Letcher County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 29, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- 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 April 29, 1967; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 113
- JOHN CHLEWAPrivate · April 29, 1967
- WILLIAM GRANT DAILEY JRLance Corporal · April 29, 1967
- DONNIE RAY DEHARTPrivate First Class · April 29, 1967
- PAUL JOSEPH LANDRYSergeant · April 29, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DONNIE RAY DEHARTPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 113
- MICHAEL JOSEPH OKEEFECorporal · Panel 18E, Line 115
- CHARLES RUSSELL PETCHNICKPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 116
From Whitesburg
- JOHN EDISON HAMPTONPrivate First Class · June 23, 1966
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.