ROGERS, EDWARD FRANCIS

Name: Edward Francis Rogers
Branch/Rank: United States Marine Corps/E2
Unit: F/2/4 9 MAB
Date of Birth: 29 September 1948
Home City of Record: ROSLINDALE MA
Date of Loss: 12 March 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 165253 North  1070806 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: GROUND
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
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Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File.  2020

REMARKS:

CACCF/GUNSHOT SMALL ARMS FIRE/QUANG TRI

No further information available at this time.

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02/2020

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PFC EDWARD FRANCIS ROGERS

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Private First Class Edward Francis Rogers entered the U.S. Marine Corps from Massachusetts and served with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 9th Marine Amphibious Brigade. On March 12, 1968, his unit engaged enemy forces in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, in the vicinity of (GC) 48Q YD 274 675. Private First Class Rogers was killed in action during this engagement, and due to the battlefield situation, his unit could not recover his body at the time of loss. Subsequent searches of the battle area were unable to locate his remains. He is still unaccounted for. Today, Private First Class Rogers is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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