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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 Lee Graham.

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ROGER LEE GRAHAM

Major · U.S. Army

January 22, 1934 – June 10, 1969

Service record

Roger Lee Graham, of Aliceville, Alabama, served as a Major in the U.S. Army. He died on June 10, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22W · Line 12

Position of Panel 22W 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
Major (MAJ)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Operations And Training Staff Officer (G3,a3,s3) (2162)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
January 22, 1934
Home of record
Aliceville, Alabama (Pickens County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 10, 1969
Age
35
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date June 10, 1969; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22W, Line 12

From Aliceville

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.