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ALAN WAYNE BRESHEARS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
October 10, 1948 – August 12, 1969
Service recordAlan Wayne Breshears, of Ft Scott, Kansas, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 12, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 9
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- October 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Ft Scott, Kansas (Bourbon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 12, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
105 names on the Wall carry the date August 12, 1969; 27 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 9
- HENRY BRABOSpecialist Four · August 12, 1969
- JAMES JEROME BRANHAMPrivate First Class · August 12, 1969
- GRADY LEE BREWERPrivate First Class · August 12, 1969
- CLARENCE FRANK BRISTOLSpecialist Four · August 12, 1969
From Ft Scott
- FRED ALBERT NETHLieutenant Commander · January 16, 1966
- RAYMOND FRANCIS LEFTWICHTechnical Sergeant · March 9, 1967
- EDWARD WILLIAM LEHNHOFF JRLieutenant Colonel · November 18, 1967
- FRANKIE EUGENE ALLGOODLieutenant Colonel · March 26, 1968
- ROBERT LESLIE RUNKLELieutenant Colonel · April 4, 1968
- KENNETH LAVERN BROWNSpecialist Five · November 2, 1970
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.