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WILLIAM MARSHALL ROARK
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
October 23, 1938 – April 7, 1965
Service recordWilliam Marshall Roark, of Bellevue, Nebraska, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 7, 1965, in North Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 102
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Born
- October 23, 1938
- Home of record
- Bellevue, Nebraska (Sarpy County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 7, 1965
- Age
- 26
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
Three names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1965. In April 1965, 61 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 1E, Line 102
- RAFAEL TORRES-RIVERASergeant · April 6, 1965
- CHARLES GILBERT TUCKERCaptain · April 6, 1965
- ARTHUR DALE BAKERMajor · April 7, 1965
- JAMES WIMBERLEY LEWISColonel · April 7, 1965
From Bellevue
- EDWARD LEROY NIEBURPetty Officer Second Class · February 27, 1968
- GORDON KAYE GATHMANPrivate First Class · September 20, 1970
- JOHN PAUL JOHNSONSergeant · September 20, 1970
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.