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GERALD ALLEN BENSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 3, 1948 – December 19, 1968
Service recordGerald Allen Benson, of Darlington, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 19, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 43
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- August 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Darlington, Wisconsin (Lafayette County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 19, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date December 19, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 43
- DAVID LEE AERTSLance Corporal · December 19, 1968
- ROBERT LYNN BONEPrivate First Class · December 19, 1968
- SHERL KENT BONNETTPrivate First Class · December 19, 1968
- CURTIS LEE BROWNPrivate First Class · December 19, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LAWRENCE ORTIZ JRCorporal · Panel 36W, Line 45
- DONNIE LEON WORTHEYPrivate First Class · Panel 36W, Line 47
From Darlington
- DAVID JOHN DONAHOECorporal · October 28, 1967
- KARL JOSEPH TASCHEK JRSpecialist Four · March 20, 1969
- JAMES PETER KURTHSpecialist Four · March 20, 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.