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WILLIAM PAUL ROGERS JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 12, 1943 – May 12, 1967
Service recordWilliam Paul Rogers JR, of Valley Fork, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 98
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Finance Specialist (73C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- August 12, 1943
- Home of record
- Valley Fork, West Virginia (Clay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1967. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19E, Line 98
- ERNEST GARY MADDENCorporal · May 12, 1967
- EDDIE MANISAirman Third Class · May 12, 1967
- JAY ANDERSON MITCHELLCaptain · May 12, 1967
- VICTOR H MONTOYA JRPrivate First Class · May 12, 1967
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.