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BENJAMIN JOSEPH SULLIVAN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 1, 1950 – July 16, 1969
Service recordBenjamin Joseph Sullivan, of Granite City, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 16, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 9
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 1, 1950
- Home of record
- Granite City, Illinois (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 16, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date July 16, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 9
- DENNIS KARL HOPPOUGHLance Corporal · July 16, 1969
- ELWIN EARL SINGLETONSpecialist Five · July 16, 1969
- ROBERT D ANDRADESergeant First Class · July 17, 1969
- ROBERT FRANKLIN BACONPrivate First Class · July 17, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROGER CLAYTON BRATHWAITESpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 5
From Granite City
- ROBERT EDWARD EMERYPrivate · December 9, 1965
- GENE E CHEPELYPrivate First Class · February 7, 1966
- JOHN BERNARD CAUSEYCaptain · February 25, 1966
- LOREN EUGENE BRADLEYPrivate First Class · April 29, 1966
- RALPH ROGER JUSTICEStaff Sergeant · January 6, 1967
- JAMES RAY DOWDYPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- JOE CARL LEUTENEGGERPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- RICHARD EUGENE SHILTSpecialist Four · August 17, 1967
- RICHARD JOHN GIEBECorporal · November 9, 1967
- MICHAEL EDWARD ADAMSSergeant · November 19, 1967
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.