ROACH, MARION LEE

07/09/73 REMAINS RECOVERED

Name: Marion Lee Roach
Branch/Rank: United States Army/E4
Unit:  192nd Assault Helicopter Company
Date of Birth: 20 December 1948
Home City of Record: CENTRAL VALLEY CA
Date of Loss: 04 November 1969
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 123000 North  1090400 East
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 4
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: UH1H
Missions:

Other Personnel in Incident: John Anderson, Richard Bauer, Alfanso
Castro, Rick Medaris, John Payne,  all remains returned 1973.

Refno: 1516

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:

07/09/73 REMAINS RECOVERED

CACCF CRASH/AIRCREW/KHANH HOA

No further information available at this time.

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SSG MARION LEE ROACH

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On September 5, 1973, the Central Identification Laboratory–Thailand (CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of Staff Sergeant Marion Lee Roach, missing from the Vietnam War.

Staff Sergeant Roach entered the U.S. Army from California and was a member of the 192nd Assault Helicopter Company. On November 4, 1969, he was the chief engineer aboard a UH-1H Iroquois (tail number 68-16057) on a routine administrative flight over central Vietnam. The flight encountered inclement weather while over Lam Dong Province and crashed, killing SSG Roach. A ground search team was unable to locate the crash site and SSG Roach's remains could not be recovered at the time. In 1973, U.S. investigators located the crash site and recovered personal artifacts, aircraft wreckage, and human remains, and were able to identify SSG Roach from these remains.

Staff Sergeant Roach is memorialized in the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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