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GEORGE TYRUS BEAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 31, 1946 – April 20, 1967
Service recordGeorge Tyrus Bean, of De Soto, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 20, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 52
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 31, 1946
- Home of record
- De Soto, Illinois (Jackson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 20, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date April 20, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 52
- JAVIER BECERRALance Corporal · April 20, 1967
- EDUARDO PAUL BRANESSpecialist Four · April 20, 1967
- RUFUS RAY CROOMSpecialist Four · April 20, 1967
- DAVID LEE DELAUGHDERPrivate First Class · April 20, 1967
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM RAYMOND LUNDBERGSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 54
- ERNEST MACK SKINNERSpecialist Five · Panel 18E, Line 54
- RODIS JOHN WARRENSergeant First Class · Panel 18E, Line 54
From De Soto
- JON MICHAEL FARNERLance Corporal · May 3, 1967
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.