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ROGER RALPH MOLL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 28, 1947 – August 23, 1968
Service recordRoger Ralph Moll, of Bay City, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 23, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 49
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Bay City, Michigan (Bay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 23, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
111 names on the Wall carry the date August 23, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 49
- ROBERT JACOB MILLER JRPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
- GILBERTO MENDEZ MOLINAPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
- DENNIS EVERETT MORGANCorporal · August 23, 1968
- ROBERT DENNIS MURPHYPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD LEE CALENTINECorporal · Panel 47W, Line 39
- JOHN LEO DIEDERICHSergeant · Panel 47W, Line 40
- WILBURN CHASTAIN GIDEONCaptain · Panel 47W, Line 42
- EUGENE JOHN HILL JRPrivate First Class · Panel 47W, Line 44
- JOEL MITCHELL LAROCHEPrivate First Class · Panel 47W, Line 47
- ROBERT WAYNE SALTERSergeant · Panel 47W, Line 54
- DANIEL GEORGE SCHWANCorporal · Panel 47W, Line 54
- STEVEN CHARLES VINTERPrivate First Class · Panel 47W, Line 56
From Bay City
- JERALD DUANE FRITZPrivate First Class · June 30, 1966
- MICHAEL EDWARD ALDERSONPrivate First Class · March 11, 1967
- JOHN DONALD ROCHESergeant First Class · December 15, 1967
- JAMES LARRY BURNEYPrivate First Class · January 8, 1968
- ALGER LAWRENCE WHITE JRSpecialist Five · February 7, 1968
- ROBERT JOHN BENSONPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- ROBERT JAMES KLINELance Corporal · April 10, 1968
- JESSE CARMONA JRCorporal · May 3, 1968
- TERRANCE W ALLENSergeant · May 6, 1968
- MICHAEL MURRAY DAVIDSONPrivate First Class · February 9, 1969
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.