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ALEXANDER BEARD
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 29, 1939 – October 13, 1968
Service recordAlexander Beard, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 56
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. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 82 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 29, 1939
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 13, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date October 13, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 56
- HERBERT JAMES WISHERSpecialist Four · October 12, 1968
- WILLIAM OLEN AUSTINPrivate First Class · October 13, 1968
- JOHN DAVID BELLESCorporal · October 13, 1968
- SYLVESTER LEWIS BROWNPetty Officer Third Class · October 13, 1968
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.