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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 Edward Robichaud.

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ROGER EDWARD ROBICHAUD

Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 1, 1945 – August 26, 1969

Service record

Roger Edward Robichaud, of Manchester, New Hampshire, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 26, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 122 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19W · Line 122

Position of Panel 19W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
A BTRY 3 BN 197 ARTY II FF
Born
July 1, 1945
Home of record
Manchester, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 26, 1969
Age
24
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date August 26, 1969; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “A BTRY 3 BN 197 ARTY II FF”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 19W, Line 122

Same unit, same day

From Manchester

All 38 names from Manchester →

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.