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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 Lee Hubbard.

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ROGER LEE HUBBARD

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 29, 1948 – October 31, 1967

Service record

Roger Lee Hubbard, of Wynne, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 31, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28E · Line 104

Position of Panel 28E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
November 29, 1948
Home of record
Wynne, Arkansas (Cross County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 31, 1967
Age
18
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date October 31, 1967; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28E, Line 104

Same unit, same day

From Wynne

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.