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ARTHUR BEST
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 21, 1931 – April 3, 1971
Service recordArthur Best, of Kenansville, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 3, 1971, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 102
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)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 21, 1931
- Home of record
- Kenansville, North Carolina (Duplin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 3, 1971
- Age
- 39
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date April 3, 1971; six of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 4W, Line 102
- GARY GENE ZELLERCorporal · April 2, 1971
- RONALD RAY BLACKSMITHSpecialist Four · April 3, 1971
- WAYNE ROY BOROWSKICorporal · April 3, 1971
- HOWARD JAMES BOWER JRPrivate First Class · April 3, 1971
Same unit, same day
- WAYNE ROY BOROWSKICorporal · Panel 4W, Line 102
- GARY BUTTStaff Sergeant · Panel 4W, Line 103
- ROBERT JESSE KISERStaff Sergeant · Panel 4W, Line 103
- EDWARD JOSEPH ROG JRSpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 104
- HOWARD OTTO WARBINGTONStaff Sergeant · Panel 4W, Line 104
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.