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ROGER WILLIAM RABEY
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
June 30, 1941 – March 10, 1967
Service recordRoger William Rabey, of Paris, Tennessee, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 54
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
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- June 30, 1941
- Home of record
- Paris, Tennessee (Henry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 10, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 54
- LOUIS PHILLIP MERINOPrivate First Class · March 10, 1967
- CHESTER ARTHUR MYERS JRFirst Lieutenant · March 10, 1967
- DENNIS ORVILLE NELSONPetty Officer Third Class · March 10, 1967
- WILLIAM EARL RAGERSergeant First Class · March 10, 1967
Same unit, same day
- BYRON DWAYNE HAMLETTSergeant First Class · Panel 16E, Line 52
- CHESTER ARTHUR MYERS JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 16E, Line 54
From Paris
- GEORGE B FORDPrivate First Class · January 26, 1966
- VANDIVER L CHILDSCaptain · April 16, 1967
- WENDELL GENE TAYLORSpecialist Four · March 17, 1968
- WILLIAM COMMODORE WOOD JRMajor · September 2, 1972
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.