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BEVERLY COSTNER WARE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 29, 1944 – April 26, 1969
Service recordBeverly Costner Ware, of Mount Holly, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 26, 1969, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 58
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
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 29, 1944
- Home of record
- Mount Holly, North Carolina (Gaston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 26, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 26, 1969; he was the only one lost in Long Khanh Province that day. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 26W, Line 58
- RICHARD LYNN TURLEYWarrant Officer 1 · April 26, 1969
- VINCENT VOSYLIUSPrivate First Class · April 26, 1969
- RICHARD HOWARD WALKERPrivate First Class · April 26, 1969
- ALTON DARNELL WOODRUFFStaff Sergeant · April 26, 1969
From Mount Holly
- DANNY FRANKLIN PERKINSPrivate First Class · March 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.