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ROY LEE CASTLEBERRY
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
November 13, 1944 – May 24, 1967
Service recordRoy Lee Castleberry, of Marietta, Georgia, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 24, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 94
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Electronics Technician (Submarine) (ET)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- November 13, 1944
- Home of record
- Marietta, Georgia (Cobb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 24, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date May 24, 1967; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 94
- MICHAEL JOSEPH CAHALANEPrivate First Class · May 24, 1967
- BERNARD LEE FRANKESergeant · May 24, 1967
- TIMOTHY P GUGLIELMONIPrivate First Class · May 24, 1967
- MORRIS DWAINE NEWLance Corporal · May 24, 1967
Same unit, same day
- TERRY FRANKLIN LEAZERFireman · Panel 20E, Line 96
- MICHAEL COURTNEY QUINNSeaman · Panel 20E, Line 98
- CHARLES DON WITTLieutenant · Panel 20E, Line 99
From Marietta
- WILLIAM BAYLES CAWTHORNESecond Lieutenant · June 30, 1964
- JOEL CLYDE ROPERPrivate First Class · October 9, 1967
- ROBERT HENRY MCCOLLUMPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- JOHNNY JUERGEN JUNKINSCorporal · March 8, 1968
- WILLIE EDWARD GLOVERPrivate First Class · April 10, 1968
- PATRICK HENRY COOK JRSpecialist Four · April 13, 1968
- RONALD WAYNE HERRENCorporal · May 27, 1968
- KIRBY LYNN HAMBYSpecialist Four · June 8, 1968
- EUGENE RICHARDSON IIILance Corporal · June 21, 1968
- MELVIN DARRYL RUMSEYPrivate First Class · November 20, 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.