Carroll, Roger William Jr.
Air Force Major

Roger William Carroll Jr. from Kansas City, Missouri.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Thursday, September 21, 1972
Death details: On September 29, 1995, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Major Roger William Carroll Jr., missing from the Vietnam War.

Major Carroll joined the U.S. Air Force from Missouri and was a member of the Headquarters, 7th Air Force. On September 21, 1972, he was the pilot of an F-4D Phantom II (tail number 66-8769) on a strike mission over northern Laos. Major Carroll’s aircraft was downed by anti-aircraft fire during the mission, and he was killed in the crash. His body could not be recovered at the time. In 1994, a joint U.S. and Laotian search team recovered remains from a crash site associated with Maj Carroll’s loss. The next year, U.S. analysts identified the remains as those of Maj Carroll.

Major Carroll is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency