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ROGER ZIMMERMAN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 12, 1943 – May 10, 1968
Service recordRoger Zimmerman, of Deerfield, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 10, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58E · Line 18
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 12, 1943
- Home of record
- Deerfield, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 10, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
72 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1968; six of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 58E, Line 18
- JAMES KENNETH ALLESSergeant · May 11, 1968
- JERRY LYNN ANDREWSPrivate First Class · May 11, 1968
- SAMUEL KENT CULBERTSONSpecialist Four · May 11, 1968
- PATRICK VINCEN FITZGERALDPrivate First Class · May 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES SCOTT BROWNCorporal · Panel 58E, Line 4
- WARREN GRAYSergeant · Panel 58E, Line 7
- ROBERT LEE OWENSSergeant · Panel 58E, Line 12
- WILLIAM C SPROULE JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 58E, Line 15
From Deerfield
- FRANZ JOSEPH KOLBECKPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- JOSEPH WILLIAM DEROSAPrivate First Class · April 14, 1967
- WILLIAM GREGORY LANDONPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- ROBERT KITTRIDGE VARICKSpecialist Four · April 18, 1968
- TIMOTHY PATRICK MCGUIRELance Corporal · May 27, 1968
- RALPH LEIGH BLAUVELTPrivate First Class · January 31, 1969
- ALLEN EDWIN OLSONSpecialist Five · February 20, 1969
- WILLIAM ERIC SCHAEFERPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
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.