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ROGER DELL QUILLEN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 5, 1947 – January 28, 1968
Service recordRoger Dell Quillen, of St Joseph, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 28, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 56
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 5, 1947
- Home of record
- St Joseph, Tennessee (Lawrence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 28, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date January 28, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 56
- DONALD RAY BUCKLESCorporal · January 28, 1968
- TIMOTHY JAMES MCKIERNANWarrant Officer 1 · January 28, 1968
- KEILA PAOPAOPrivate First Class · January 28, 1968
- ROBERT STEPHEN PLUNKETTCorporal · January 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOE DAVID BROWNSergeant First Class · Panel 35E, Line 53
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.