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ROM WORLEY
Specialist Six · U.S. Army
August 19, 1932 – April 27, 1967
Service recordRom Worley, of Walnut, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Six in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 104
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Six (SP6)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Practical Nurse (91C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 19, 1932
- Home of record
- Walnut, North Carolina (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 27, 1967
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1967; eight of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 18E, Line 104
- RONALD KEITH PENNINGTONLance Corporal · April 27, 1967
- ANTON PROSZEK JRSpecialist Five · April 27, 1967
- AUGUSTINE RESENDEZLance Corporal · April 27, 1967
- LONNIE G SKAGGSSpecialist Four · April 27, 1967
Same unit, same day
- TERRY LYNN YAWNPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 105
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.