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RORY ANTONIO MADDEN
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
August 8, 1942 – October 10, 1967
Service recordRory Antonio Madden, of Kingston, Oklahoma, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 10, 1967, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 84
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- August 8, 1942
- Home of record
- Kingston, Oklahoma (Marshall County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 10, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date October 10, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 84
- JOHN REDMOND COTTERCorporal · October 10, 1967
- JOHN EDWARD DAVISSpecialist Four · October 10, 1967
- LOREN LESLIE ERTELSpecialist Four · October 10, 1967
- GERALD FRANK MAYOSergeant · October 10, 1967
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.