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ROOSEVELT SPEIGHTS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 10, 1948 – October 24, 1968
Service recordRoosevelt Speights, of Lake City, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 24, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 30
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)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Lake City, South Carolina (Florence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 24, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date October 24, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 62 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 30
- LONNIE THOMAS PARKERCorporal · October 24, 1968
- TIMOTHY MICHAEL PORTERFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1968
- RICHARD STEPHEN RILEY JRWarrant Officer 1 · October 24, 1968
- DAVID LEO SPARKSSpecialist Four · October 24, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CLYDE DAVID DOWNARD JRCorporal · Panel 40W, Line 28
- ARNOLD M MARCHLEWICZPrivate First Class · Panel 40W, Line 28
- JAMES PATRICK MRAZIKPrivate First Class · Panel 40W, Line 29
From Lake City
- TITUS LEVEN BURGESSPrivate First Class · December 2, 1966
- ARTHUR M PARKER IIICaptain · May 29, 1968
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.