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ROGER DALE SPRINKLE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 26, 1949 – December 30, 1968
Service recordRoger Dale Sprinkle, of Statesville, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 30, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 10
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- March 26, 1949
- Home of record
- Statesville, North Carolina (Iredell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 30, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date December 30, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Read the history
Also on Panel 35W, Line 10
- RONALD LAWRENCE SHATTUCKSergeant · December 30, 1968
- MARK ANDREW SMENYAKPrivate First Class · December 30, 1968
- STEPHEN OMEARA WHITESergeant · December 30, 1968
- REYNALDO ARENASSpecialist Four · December 31, 1968
From Statesville
- MURRAY SIMS MOSELEYSpecialist Four · April 30, 1966
- JOHNIE WAYNE MCLAINPrivate First Class · August 2, 1966
- JERRY WAYNE CAMPBELLSergeant · July 25, 1967
- WILLIAM EDDIE HOCKERCaptain · September 5, 1967
- GEORGE LAXLEY MYERSSergeant · December 12, 1967
- ELBERT HENRY MAXWELLPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- RONALD JAY MCCOYPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- EUGENE MORGAN SUTTON JRSergeant · May 19, 1968
- ARDREY WATTS BARRINGER JRPrivate · June 9, 1968
- WILLIAM THEODORE ANDERSONStaff Sergeant · August 25, 1968
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.