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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Roger Vernon Inscore.

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ROGER VERNON INSCORE

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

December 10, 1945 – May 26, 1967

Service record

Roger Vernon Inscore, of Huntington Beach, California, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 26, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 117 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 117

Position of Panel 20E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Machinegunner (0331)
Born
December 10, 1945
Home of record
Huntington Beach, California (Orange County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 26, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

91 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1967; 39 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 117

From Huntington Beach

All 21 names from Huntington Beach →

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.