Roger Steven Powers

Company C 1/22 Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 11/20/69

 

 

Service: Army of the United States
Grade at loss: E4
Rank: Sergeant
Note: Posthumous Promotion as indicated
MOS: 11B20: Infantryman
Length Service: 00
Unit: C CO, 1ST BN, 22ND INFANTRY, 4TH INF DIV

Home of Record: Stoneville, MS
Date of birth: 09/01/1948

Start Tour: 06/15/1969
Incident Date: 11/20/1969
Casualty Date: 11/20/1969
Age at Loss: 21
Location: Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam
Remains: Body recovered
Casualty Type: Hostile, died outright
Casualty Reason: Ground casualty
Casualty Detail: Gun or small arms fire

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Roger Powers was killed in action during an engagement with hostile forces at grid reference BR825101,
approximately 4 kilometers north/northwest of Van Canh airfield.

 

 

 

 

SGT Roger S. Powers' decorations

 

 

 

 

 

Roger is buried at Leland/Stoneville Cemetery, Stoneville, MS

 

Grave marker for Roger S. Powers

 

Photo courtesy of Shelli from Boone Funeral Home

 

 

 

 

Pin for the MIA and KIA from the State of Mississippi

 

 

 

 

Top photo of Roger Steven Powers courtesy of Fred Childs Company C 1/22 Infantry 1967-1968

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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