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BENNY RAY HALSTEAD
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 15, 1950 – August 26, 1970
Service recordBenny Ray Halstead, of Glen Morgan, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on August 26, 1970, in Ba Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7W · Line 9
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Wire Systems Equipment Repairer (35N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- March 15, 1950
- Home of record
- Glen Morgan, West Virginia (Raleigh County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 26, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Ba Xugen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date August 26, 1970; four of them were lost in Ba Xugen Province. In August 1970, 452 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 7W, Line 9
- RONALD EUGENE CHANDLERPrivate First Class · August 26, 1970
- WESLEY OTERIA CODYCorporal · August 26, 1970
- ONNIE DAVID DUNCANSergeant · August 26, 1970
- CURTISS ESTRIDGESpecialist Four · August 26, 1970
Same unit, same day
- STEPHEN DOUGLAS CARRCaptain · Panel 7W, Line 10
- LARRY BRUCE JACOBSONSpecialist Five · Panel 7W, Line 11
- WILLIAM H LAURENCE JRWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 7W, Line 12
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.