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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 Vincent Paul Burke.

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ROGER VINCENT PAUL BURKE

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

May 25, 1943 – February 6, 1967

Service record

Roger Vincent Paul Burke, of Georgetown, Connecticut, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 6, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 127 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 127

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Administrative Man (0141)
Born
May 25, 1943
Home of record
Georgetown, Connecticut (Fairfield County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 6, 1967
Age
23
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

43 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 127

From Georgetown

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.