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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 David Zeigler.

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ROGER DAVID ZEIGLER

Corporal · U.S. Army

February 22, 1947 – April 27, 1968

Service record

Roger David Zeigler, of Yeagertown, Pennsylvania, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 52E · Line 32

Position of Panel 52E 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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
February 22, 1947
Home of record
Yeagertown, Pennsylvania (Mifflin County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 27, 1968
Age
21
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

30 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1968; seven of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 52E, Line 32

Same unit, same day

From Yeagertown

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.