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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Roger Lee Tanner.

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ROGER LEE TANNER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

July 4, 1947 – February 6, 1967

Service record

Roger Lee Tanner, of Cincinnati, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 6, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 2

Position of Panel 15E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
July 4, 1947
Home of record
Cincinnati, Ohio (Hamilton County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 6, 1967
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

43 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1967. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 2

Same unit, same day

From Cincinnati

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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.