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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Roland Robert Bellamy.

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ROLAND ROBERT BELLAMY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 25, 1948 – March 23, 1968

Service record

Roland Robert Bellamy, of Cazenovia, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 23, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 45E · Line 61

Position of Panel 45E 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
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
October 25, 1948
Home of record
Cazenovia, New York (Madison County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 23, 1968
Age
19
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Died of other causes

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date March 23, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 31 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 45E, Line 61

From Cazenovia

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.