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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ben Hervey Ide.

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BEN HERVEY IDE

Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Army

April 13, 1938 – December 19, 1968

Service record

Ben Hervey Ide, of Marina, California, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Army. He died on December 19, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 36W · Line 45

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
April 13, 1938
Home of record
Marina, California (Monterey County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 19, 1968
Age
30
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

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What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date December 19, 1968. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 36W, Line 45

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.