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BEN DAVID SNOWDEN
Master Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 1, 1937 – June 15, 1967
Service recordBen David Snowden, of Georgetown, Texas, served as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 15, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 108 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 108
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Master Sergeant (MSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- September 1, 1937
- Home of record
- Georgetown, Texas (Williamson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 15, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1967. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 21E, Line 108
- JOHN ANTHONY PENNACorporal · June 15, 1967
- FLOYD H RUSSELL JRPrivate First Class · June 15, 1967
- FRANCISCO LEO SAMSON JRCorporal · June 15, 1967
- ERNESTO SANCHEZ JRLance Corporal · June 15, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES CHARLES FEKETESergeant First Class · Panel 21E, Line 104
- HUBERT CLARENCE VANPOLLStaff Sergeant · Panel 21E, Line 110
From Georgetown
- LARRY RAY GUENTZELSpecialist Four · June 24, 1967
- JAMES THOMAS CHAMBERSSpecialist Four · February 8, 1968
- ALAN RICHARD LYMANCorporal · June 13, 1968
- RICHARD ARLEN OMANCorporal · April 27, 1969
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.