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ROGER WILSON CHASTEEN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 11, 1947 – May 10, 1967
Service recordRoger Wilson Chasteen, of Crestwood, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 10, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 79
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- April 11, 1947
- Home of record
- Crestwood, Missouri (St Louis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 10, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1967; 34 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 19E, Line 79
- LUTHER CHAMBLISSSpecialist Four · May 10, 1967
- JAMES RAYMOND COOPERPrivate First Class · May 10, 1967
- FRANK XAVIER CUOZZOPrivate First Class · May 10, 1967
- ALBERT JAMES DARLING IIIPrivate First Class · May 10, 1967
From Crestwood
- JERRY BERNARD KRAFTPrivate First Class · March 27, 1967
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.