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ROGER EVANS DUNCAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 14, 1948 – March 17, 1968
Service recordRoger Evans Duncan, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 17, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 10
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- November 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Tulsa, Oklahoma (Tulsa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 17, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 17, 1968; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 208 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 45E, Line 10
- LEE DAVID BENSONLieutenant (junior grade) · March 17, 1968
- HERMANN DOELGER-LANDIVARPrivate First Class · March 17, 1968
- JOHN FOLDVARY JRCorporal · March 17, 1968
- CARL EDWARD GARZAPrivate First Class · March 17, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DENNIS LANE CUNNINGHAMSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 9
- ROBERT ANTHONY ITZOESergeant First Class · Panel 45E, Line 12
- WENDELL GENE TAYLORSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 16
From Tulsa
- JORDEN DUWAYNE FORRESTERSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- MARTIN RONALD SCOTTColonel · March 15, 1966
- JAMES ALLEN DOKESergeant · March 24, 1966
- DAVID LEE CHAPMANPrivate First Class · May 18, 1966
- STANLEY GILBERT COXCaptain · May 18, 1966
- FLOYD WAYNE HAMILTONLance Corporal · May 23, 1966
- WILLIAM ROSS SAVAGEWarrant Officer 1 · June 24, 1966
- ISAIAH HERMAN WILSONPrivate First Class · July 15, 1966
- PAUL WILLIAM JOHNSONCaptain · July 22, 1966
- LEE GRANT JOHNSONLance Corporal · July 30, 1966
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.