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JAMES CLARKE BEAVER
Corporal · U.S. Army
August 19, 1947 – November 4, 1969
Service recordJames Clarke Beaver, of Dolton, Illinois, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on November 4, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16W · Line 26
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Dolton, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 4, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date November 4, 1969; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 16W, Line 26
- TERRY LANIER ALFORDChief Warrant Officer 3 · November 4, 1969
- JOHN STEVEN ANDERSONChief Warrant Officer 2 · November 4, 1969
- DERWIN MICHAEL BAILEYCorporal · November 4, 1969
- RICHARD GENE BAUERSpecialist Five · November 4, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ERNESTO LUIS LARACUENTEPrivate First Class · Panel 16W, Line 30
From Dolton
- LARRY CHANDLER WESTPrivate First Class · January 13, 1967
- WILLIAM JOSEPH LENOVERPrivate First Class · March 28, 1967
- DALE ALAN BISHOPPrivate First Class · April 13, 1967
- HAROLD DEAN SPRAGGSpecialist Four · January 18, 1968
- ANTHONY JOHN SCHNELLER JRPrivate First Class · February 5, 1968
- DAVID KNOXLance Corporal · June 8, 1968
- JAMES HARRY SACHASCHIKPrivate First Class · February 24, 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.