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BENJAMIN EDWIN LENNARD JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 25, 1947 – April 14, 1968
Service recordBenjamin Edwin Lennard JR, of Ruskin, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 14, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 53
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- July 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Ruskin, Florida (Hillsborough County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 14, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date April 14, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 53
- DEWAYNE KINGPrivate First Class · April 14, 1968
- GARY HOYT LEARYPrivate First Class · April 14, 1968
- HECTOR RAMON MARIN-RAMOSSergeant · April 14, 1968
- TIMOTHY GEORGE MATTSONCorporal · April 14, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROGER LEE CARPENTERPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 51
- GEORGE ALFRED CHED DILLONPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 52
- GARY HOYT LEARYPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 53
- JAMES ROBERT NASHSpecialist Four · Panel 49E, Line 54
From Ruskin
- WILLIE GENE BRIDGESPrivate First Class · April 21, 1968
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.