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HAROLD L BEGODY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 12, 1941 – February 14, 1968
Service recordHarold L Begody, of Tuba City, Arizona, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 14, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 28
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- November 12, 1941
- Home of record
- Tuba City, Arizona (Coconino County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 14, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date February 14, 1968; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 39E, Line 28
- TERRY WAYNE WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · February 13, 1968
- RAFTKEITH EROS BAKERPrivate First Class · February 14, 1968
- FRANK ARVIS BEAVERSSpecialist Five · February 14, 1968
- HOWARD CLAYTON BELLSergeant · February 14, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM BLAKELYPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 29
- RODOLFO DELEONPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 30
- LARRY WILBERT ELLIOTTSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 31
- ALBERT ALLEN TIPPETTSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 40
From Tuba City
- DANIEL DEE DENIPAHLance Corporal · December 28, 1967
- RALFORD JOHN JACKSONPrivate First Class · May 22, 1969
- OSCAR MALONEYSpecialist Five · November 2, 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.