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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Edward Ray Basham.

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EDWARD RAY BASHAM

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

August 25, 1932 – December 11, 1966

Service record

Edward Ray Basham, of Hawesville, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 11, 1966, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 13E · Line 31

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
Born
August 25, 1932
Home of record
Hawesville, Kentucky (Hancock County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 11, 1966
Age
34
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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33 names on the Wall carry the date December 11, 1966; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 13E, Line 31

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.