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ROY DWIGHT HEASTER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 30, 1945 – July 16, 1966
Service recordRoy Dwight Heaster, of Crawley, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 16, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9E · Line 28
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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
- May 30, 1945
- Home of record
- Crawley, West Virginia (Greenbrier County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 16, 1966
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date July 16, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 93 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 9E, Line 28
- JAMES MARVIN GODSEYLance Corporal · July 16, 1966
- WILLIAM F LABRECQUE JRLance Corporal · July 16, 1966
- RICHARD ALLEN MAULLance Corporal · July 16, 1966
- RICHARD SAMUEL MOHNCorporal · July 16, 1966
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES DOUGLAS CROWESpecialist Four · Panel 9E, Line 27
- JESSE B STRIBLINGPrivate First Class · Panel 9E, Line 29
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.