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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Roger Dale Segers.

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ROGER DALE SEGERS

Corporal · U.S. Army

July 22, 1944 – July 14, 1967

Service record

Roger Dale Segers, of Altha, Florida, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on July 14, 1967, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 71

Position of Panel 23E 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
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
July 22, 1944
Home of record
Altha, Florida (Calhoun County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 14, 1967
Age
22
Province
Phuoc Tuy
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date July 14, 1967; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 71

From Altha

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.