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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Roger Duwaine White.

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ROGER DUWAINE WHITE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 29, 1943 – December 27, 1966

Service record

Roger Duwaine White, of Battle Creek, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 27, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13E · Line 87

Position of Panel 13E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
September 29, 1943
Home of record
Battle Creek, Michigan (Calhoun County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 27, 1966
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date December 27, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 117 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13E, Line 87

Same unit, same day

From Battle Creek

All 29 names from Battle Creek →

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.