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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dennis Guy Benson.

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DENNIS GUY BENSON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 7, 1947 – December 23, 1968

Service record

Dennis Guy Benson, of Manchaug, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 23, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 36W · Line 67

Position of Panel 36W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Chemical Equipment Repairer (54D)
Born
September 7, 1947
Home of record
Manchaug, Massachusetts (Worcester County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 23, 1968
Age
21
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

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21 names on the Wall carry the date December 23, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 36W, Line 67

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.