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CLIFFORD EUGENE BENCH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 28, 1952 – March 16, 1971
Service recordClifford Eugene Bench, of Cambridge, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 16, 1971, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 52
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- May 28, 1952
- Home of record
- Cambridge, Ohio (Guernsey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1971
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1971; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 52
- CLYDE THOMASCorporal · March 15, 1971
- GARY JAMES FUQUASpecialist Four · March 16, 1971
- JAMES LEE GETTERPrivate · March 16, 1971
- LOYD VAN MCCARTHY JRCaptain · March 16, 1971
From Cambridge
- JOSEPH LEON KANEMaster Sergeant · April 4, 1966
- CARL ROSS HARBIN JRSpecialist Four · August 25, 1966
- CHARLES M WAYTSpecialist Four · February 15, 1967
- EMORY DAVID VOORHIESCorporal · June 9, 1968
- ROBERT ARTHUR AUSMUSGunnery Sergeant · July 5, 1968
- GARRY LYNN UPLINGERSpecialist Four · May 18, 1969
- JOHN EDWARD LEASUREPrivate First Class · November 14, 1969
- JAMES WILLIAM REEDMajor · July 24, 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.