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BENJAMIN H BINEGAR JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 8, 1943 – February 4, 1969
Service recordBenjamin H Binegar JR, of East Peoria, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 4, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · Line 53
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice (67A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- August 8, 1943
- Home of record
- East Peoria, Illinois (Tazewell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 4, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date February 4, 1969; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33W, Line 53
- ROBERT LEE BALLARDPrivate · February 4, 1969
- MICHAEL ALLEN BARNESPrivate First Class · February 4, 1969
- ROBERT EUGENE BEAUMONTSergeant · February 4, 1969
- JAMES MARVIN DONSTADPrivate First Class · February 4, 1969
From East Peoria
- CARL RAY BARNHARTPrivate First Class · November 25, 1967
- BERNARD CHARLES MATTSONPrivate First Class · January 12, 1968
- WILLIAM DERRILL TRENTLance Corporal · May 8, 1968
- JOHN EMORY MILESPrivate First Class · July 2, 1968
- RUSSELL EUGENE MOKEFirst Lieutenant · February 7, 1969
- CLIFFORD IVAN WRIGHTSergeant · October 12, 1970
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.