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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Rogers Pullins JR.

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ROGERS PULLINS JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 18, 1948 – April 4, 1969

Service record

Rogers Pullins JR, of Harlem, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 4, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27W · Line 12

Position of Panel 27W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
December 18, 1948
Home of record
Harlem, Georgia (Columbia County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 4, 1969
Age
20
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date April 4, 1969; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 87 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 27W, Line 12

Same unit, same day

From Harlem

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.