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HUGH ELROY BEST III
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
September 19, 1947 – January 29, 1969
Service recordHugh Elroy Best III, of Tarboro, North Carolina, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 29, 1969, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · Line 13
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- September 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Tarboro, North Carolina (Edgecombe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 29, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date January 29, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kien Tuong Province that day. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 114 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 33W, Line 13
- DAVID FRANK CLEEREMANLance Corporal · January 29, 1969
- JIMMY LEE CULWELLSergeant · January 29, 1969
- WILLIAM DALEYLance Corporal · January 29, 1969
- JESSE LEONARD ELLISPrivate First Class · January 29, 1969
From Tarboro
- CARL LOUIS DOUGHTIELieutenant (junior grade) · June 10, 1965
- FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT THORPELance Corporal · June 15, 1967
- HOWARD ARNOLD SESSOMSStaff Sergeant · June 21, 1967
- CICERO WHITFIELD JRSpecialist Four · August 22, 1967
- GEORGE ELMER CANNON SRStaff Sergeant · August 6, 1969
- BOBBY EUGENE JONESSpecialist Four · January 30, 1970
- WILLIAM I ALLSBROOK JRPrivate First Class · October 2, 1970
- THOMAS REUBEN BRADLEYSpecialist Four · November 21, 1970
- WILLIAM HASSELL THIGPENFirst Lieutenant · January 16, 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.