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HAROLD GEORGE BENNETT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 16, 1940 – December 29, 1964
Service recordHarold George Bennett, of Perryville, Arkansas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on December 29, 1964, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 79
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- October 16, 1940
- Home of record
- Perryville, Arkansas (Perry County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- December 29, 1964
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
- First reported
- Captured / prisoner of war
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
One name on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1964; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In December 1964, 36 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 1E, Line 79
- ROY GORDON AZBILLWarrant Officer 1 · December 30, 1964
- REINO ARNE PANULAStaff Sergeant · December 30, 1964
- FRANKLIN DELANO PORTERSergeant · December 30, 1964
- THEODORE ALAN WINOWITCHPrivate First Class · December 30, 1964
From Perryville
- MICHEAL EDWARD RICHARDSLance Corporal · July 31, 1968
- JAMES HARLEN ALLENPrivate First Class · March 30, 1971
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.