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ALBERT LEON BETTS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 3, 1942 – February 2, 1968
Service recordAlbert Leon Betts, of Baltimore, Maryland, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 2, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 65
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Microwave Systems Repairer (26L)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- January 3, 1942
- Home of record
- Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 2, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
130 names on the Wall carry the date February 2, 1968; 38 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 36E, Line 65
- JOSEPH CHARLES APPLEGATEPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- MOSES ANTHONY ARNOLDCorporal · February 2, 1968
- RAY CARROL BANKSSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- CHARLES JAMES BAUER JRPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RODNEY ARTHUR ALFANOFirst Lieutenant · Panel 36E, Line 64
- LEANDRO GARCIAPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 71
- RICHARD EDWARD GIDEONSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 72
- LEON FAIRDEN HUBERSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 74
- STEVEN LEON RANEYSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 83
- JOSEPH MICHAEL RODRIGUESSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 84
From Baltimore
- EVERETTE LEROY DONALDSONPrivate First Class · June 29, 1964
- WILLIAM EDWARD FOWLERLance Corporal · July 9, 1965
- FRANK ROBERT SAXONLance Corporal · September 14, 1965
- JAMES MCKINLEY LONGPrivate First Class · October 5, 1965
- THOMAS JAMES SCHINDLERSergeant · October 5, 1965
- SAMUEL L HOLMANSergeant · November 17, 1965
- RICHARD DEANE OTTStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- JAMES ODELL VAUGHANStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- JAMES ANTHONY WATSONSecond Lieutenant · December 4, 1965
- PHILIP JAMES MCCARTHYSergeant · December 5, 1965
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.