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ROGER LEE SCHWARZ
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 16, 1949 – August 19, 1968
Service recordRoger Lee Schwarz, of Le Mars, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 19, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 4
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
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- October 16, 1949
- Home of record
- Le Mars, Iowa (Plymouth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 19, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date August 19, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 4
- WILLIAM LEONARD SANDERSENSpecialist Four · August 19, 1968
- FREDERICK VERNON SEABORNEPrivate First Class · August 19, 1968
- RENE SERRANOPrivate First Class · August 19, 1968
- LEONARD EARL SEXTONPrivate First Class · August 19, 1968
From Le Mars
- CORBIN CLARK TINDALLFirst Lieutenant · April 12, 1969
- RODNEY LEE KOERNERCorporal · June 26, 1970
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.