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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Roger Dale Lawson.

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ROGER DALE LAWSON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 6, 1949 – July 18, 1969

Service record

Roger Dale Lawson, of Columbia Station, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 18, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 20W · Line 15

Position of Panel 20W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
November 6, 1949
Home of record
Columbia Station, Ohio (Lorain County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 18, 1969
Age
19
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date July 18, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 34 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 20W, Line 15

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.