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HERBERT EUGENE BELCHER
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
December 9, 1928 – March 31, 1969
Service recordHerbert Eugene Belcher, of Douglas, Georgia, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 31, 1969, in Vinh Binh Province, South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 96
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- December 9, 1928
- Home of record
- Douglas, Georgia (Coffee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 31, 1969
- Age
- 40
- Province
- Vinh Binh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 31, 1969; he was the only one lost in Vinh Binh Province that day. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 96
- RICHARD CARL BEHNKECaptain · March 31, 1969
- JAMES CURTIS BRANNANSergeant First Class · March 31, 1969
- DONALD LEE BRUCKARTSeaman · March 31, 1969
- WILLIAM GREGORY BURKEPrivate First Class · March 31, 1969
From Douglas
- LEON G HOLTONFirst Lieutenant · October 8, 1965
- DEWAYNE KINGPrivate First Class · April 14, 1968
- NATHAN BEDFORD SIMMONSSergeant First Class · May 12, 1969
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.