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ROGER PAUL GALLANT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 22, 1938 – January 14, 1967
Service recordRoger Paul Gallant, of Mexico, Maine, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 14, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 27
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- March 22, 1938
- Home of record
- Mexico, Maine (Oxford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 14, 1967
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date January 14, 1967; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 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.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 27
- LONNIE ALLEN FLOYDSpecialist Four · January 14, 1967
- JOHN FRANK RAY GRIEGOCorporal · January 14, 1967
- JEROME ALFRED HAGENSeaman Apprentice · January 14, 1967
- FERRELL HUMMINGBIRDLance Corporal · January 14, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOE HERBERT EPPSPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 26
- ROBERT CLARK FERRISWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 14E, Line 26
- ARTHUR RUSSELL LEGROW JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 14E, Line 28
From Mexico
- EDWARD J BOIVINSpecialist Four · November 24, 1966
- THEODORE DANIEL BERNARDSpecialist Four · March 15, 1968
- FREDERICK RAYMOND MILLEDGESpecialist Four · July 9, 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.