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ROGER ROGELIO PANGAN
Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 4, 1947 – July 21, 1969
Service recordRoger Rogelio Pangan, of Ewa, Hawaii, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 21, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 31
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- March 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Ewa, Hawaii (Honolulu County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 21, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date July 21, 1969; two of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 31
- BOYD KEITH NEWBOLDSpecialist Five · July 21, 1969
- RAYMOND JOSEPH PALANDROPrivate First Class · July 21, 1969
- RICHARD JAMES PARNELLSergeant · July 21, 1969
- EUGENE RAYMOND RIPPELSpecialist Four · July 21, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD ALLEN CUTLERPrivate First Class · Panel 20W, Line 28
From Ewa
- ROBERT RUSSELL BODESergeant First Class · July 6, 1966
- PEPITO RIVERA ACERETSpecialist Five · December 7, 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.