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ROGER WILLIAM SHIPLEY
Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 12, 1944 – June 6, 1968
Service recordRoger William Shipley, of Mcminnville, Oregon, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 6, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 59W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59W · Line 14
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- January 12, 1944
- Home of record
- Mcminnville, Oregon (Yamhill County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 6, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
106 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 59W, Line 14
- KENNETH WILLIAM SCHAUBLECorporal · June 6, 1968
- WALTER LEE SEAWRIGHTPrivate First Class · June 6, 1968
- PETER MERRILL SHEPHERDPrivate First Class · June 6, 1968
- LONNIE SHEPPARD JRCorporal · June 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LEONARD ERWIN CRUCEPrivate First Class · Panel 60W, Line 27
- ALFRED MCCULLOUGHPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 59W, Line 9
From Mcminnville
- MICHAEL GLENN TURNERLance Corporal · April 21, 1968
- JON WALTER LAYTON IIIFirst Lieutenant · June 27, 1968
- RICHARD EUGENE TRASTERPrivate First Class · August 30, 1968
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.