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HARRY E BATES
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 4, 1948 – December 8, 1968
Service recordHarry E Bates, of Beattyville, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on December 8, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 61
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- August 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Beattyville, Kentucky (Lee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 8, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date December 8, 1968; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 61
- WAYNE ALAN BARNUMSpecialist Four · December 8, 1968
- MARTEE BRADLEY JRSpecialist Four · December 8, 1968
- JAMES EUGENE BREWERStaff Sergeant · December 8, 1968
- CHARLES WARREN E CALDWELLPrivate First Class · December 8, 1968
From Beattyville
- JIMMY HARRISSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- DARIUS E BROWNSpecialist Five · October 13, 1966
- DONALD M PERDUESergeant · May 5, 1968
- EDWARD LEE VANDERPOOLSergeant · December 24, 1968
- JAKE OSBORNEPrivate First Class · June 12, 1969
- WILLIE JAMES OAKSPrivate First Class · November 28, 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.