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JAMES AUSTIN BENTON
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
February 19, 1948 – April 27, 1967
Service recordJames Austin Benton, of Daisy, Tennessee, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 27, 1967, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 100
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Unit (as recorded)
- H&S CO BLT 1/3 9 MAB FMF
- Born
- February 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Daisy, Tennessee (Hamilton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 27, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Offshore
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “H&S CO BLT 1/3 9 MAB FMF”, his unit in the record, lost 6 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
On the Wall
Also on Panel 18E, Line 100
- JAMES EDWARD BOORMANSergeant · April 27, 1967
- JAMES DENNIS BRONAKOSKISpecialist Four · April 27, 1967
- WILFRIED BURCKCorporal · April 27, 1967
- REINALDO ANTONIO CASTROSergeant · April 27, 1967
Same unit, same day
- REINALDO ANTONIO CASTROSergeant · Panel 18E, Line 100
- RICHARD HOWARD DALLASLance Corporal · Panel 18E, Line 101
- BLENN COLBY DYERLance Corporal · Panel 18E, Line 103
- SAMUEL WILLIAM OSBORNE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 103
- RONALD KEITH PENNINGTONLance Corporal · Panel 18E, Line 104
From Daisy
- JOHN DAVID REYNOLDSPrivate First Class · September 8, 1967
- JAMES RALPH POTTERStaff Sergeant · September 11, 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.