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ROY EUGENE PARKER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 25, 1946 – April 28, 1969
Service recordRoy Eugene Parker, of Shell Beach, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 28, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 72
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Ch-34 Helicopter Repairman (67P)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- August 25, 1946
- Home of record
- Shell Beach, California (San Luis Obispo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 28, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1969; five of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 59 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 72
- MURRAY JUNIOR JACKSONPrivate First Class · April 28, 1969
- BERT MCCREE JENKINSWarrant Officer 1 · April 28, 1969
- HERBERT LEE MALONESergeant · April 28, 1969
- WALTER LEE NUTT IIIPrivate First Class · April 28, 1969
Same unit, same day
- BERT MCCREE JENKINSWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 26W, Line 72
- PHILLIP W WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · Panel 26W, Line 75
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.