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WILLIAM EARL RAGER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 4, 1930 – March 10, 1967
Service recordWilliam Earl Rager, of Abilene, Kansas, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 54
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HHC 168 ENG BN USARV
- Born
- August 4, 1930
- Home of record
- Abilene, Kansas (Dickinson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 10, 1967
- Age
- 36
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 54
- LOUIS PHILLIP MERINOPrivate First Class · March 10, 1967
- CHESTER ARTHUR MYERS JRFirst Lieutenant · March 10, 1967
- DENNIS ORVILLE NELSONPetty Officer Third Class · March 10, 1967
- ROGER WILLIAM RABEYSecond Lieutenant · March 10, 1967
From Abilene
- JOHN HERBERT GFELLERPlatoon Sergeant · February 19, 1968
- JOSEPH HENRY INGRUMPetty Officer Second Class · May 12, 1968
- JACK EUGENE HOLMESSpecialist Five · December 27, 1969
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.