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ROY ROGERS WEST
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 16, 1942 – August 29, 1968
Service recordRoy Rogers West, of Ahoskie, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 29, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 3
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Illumination Crewman (17E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- May 16, 1942
- Home of record
- Ahoskie, North Carolina (Hertford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 29, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1968; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 45W, Line 3
- GERALD WAYNE SPRINGERPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- JEFFREY SANDERS TIGNERPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- KENNETH KEITH TOWER JRCorporal · August 29, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD WELLSPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
From Ahoskie
- HEROLIN THADUS SIMMONSStaff Sergeant · July 15, 1966
- HARVEY LEDREW LEWISStaff Sergeant · September 13, 1966
- BOBBY RAY GARDNERSergeant · August 8, 1967
- HERBERT GORDAN TAYLORCorporal · September 27, 1968
- STEVEN DALE PERRYSergeant · October 6, 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.