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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Glen Dean Belnap.

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GLEN DEAN BELNAP

Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Army

January 18, 1923 – December 20, 1967

Service record

Glen Dean Belnap, of Red Bluff, California, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. He died on December 20, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 44. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 29

Position of Panel 32E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Lieutenant Colonel (LTC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
January 18, 1923
Home of record
Red Bluff, California (Tehama County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 20, 1967
Age
44
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1967; four of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 29

Same unit, same day

From Red Bluff

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.