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BENNETT EDWARD EVANS
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 9, 1929 – August 24, 1968
Service recordBennett Edward Evans, of Green River, Wyoming, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 24, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 7
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Repairman (45C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- April 9, 1929
- Home of record
- Green River, Wyoming (Sweetwater County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 24, 1968
- Age
- 39
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 7
- RICHARD ANTHONY PARKERPrivate First Class · August 24, 1968
- DONALD RAY PYRANTCorporal · August 24, 1968
- DAVID NILSSON RASMUSSENSergeant · August 24, 1968
- CHARLES HAROLD W READ JRColonel · August 24, 1968
From Green River
- BRUCE ALLAN JENSENLieutenant Colonel · August 27, 1967
- DOUGLAS EUGENE ROGERSPrivate First Class · November 23, 1967
- DENNIS DWAIN KINGFirst Lieutenant · February 20, 1968
- ROBERT FRANKLIN MAURERPrivate First Class · August 29, 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.