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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Roger Duane Roseberry.

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ROGER DUANE ROSEBERRY

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

July 16, 1944 – March 21, 1967

Service record

Roger Duane Roseberry, of Hebron, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17E · Line 13

Position of Panel 17E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
July 16, 1944
Home of record
Hebron, Indiana (Porter County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 21, 1967
Age
22
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

95 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1967; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 17E, Line 13

Same unit, same day

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.