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WILLIAM ROGER GOUDELOCK
Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 16, 1948 – March 18, 1968
Service recordWilliam Roger Goudelock, of Meridian, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 18, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 22
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- September 16, 1948
- Home of record
- Meridian, California (Sutter County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
82 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 45E, Line 22
- EDUARDO GARCIA JRStaff Sergeant · March 18, 1968
- LOUIS CHARLES GOICorporal · March 18, 1968
- ELVIN WAYNE GOSEPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- LARRY VERNARD GREENPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JUAN JOSE NAZARIOSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 26
- CHARLES DANIEL SMITHSergeant · Panel 45E, Line 30
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.