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ROGER LEE PIFER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 26, 1950 – February 20, 1969
Service recordRoger Lee Pifer, of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 20, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32W · Line 67
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- M60a1 Tank Crewman (1811)
- Born
- June 26, 1950
- Home of record
- Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania (Columbia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1969
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 32W, Line 67
- ALLEN EDWIN OLSONSpecialist Five · February 20, 1969
- RICHARD EUGENE PARKERLance Corporal · February 20, 1969
- JUNIOR FLOYD RONIGERSergeant · February 20, 1969
- MICHAEL WILSONPrivate First Class · February 20, 1969
From Bloomsburg
- ROBERT CHARLES HESSOMCommander · March 5, 1966
- TERRY RICHARD HINKLESpecialist Four · August 13, 1968
- GARY JAMES PALMERPrivate · October 15, 1968
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.