Hershel Gale Rogers, age 25, from Mackinaw, Illinois, Tazewell county.
Parents: Hershel W. Rogers
Spouse: Darlene Sellers
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Deer Cree-Mackinaw High (1964), Monmouth College
Date of death: Monday, September 27, 1971
Death details: Killed in South Vietnam when the helicopter he was piloting took heavy ground fire and exploded.
Cemetery: Clairmore, Oklahoma
Source: National Archives, Bloomington Pantagraph (1971)