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JAMES CLEVELAND BINK JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 6, 1949 – August 6, 1969
Service recordJames Cleveland Bink JR, of Selkirk, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 6, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 100
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Administrative Man (0141)
- Born
- September 6, 1949
- Home of record
- Selkirk, New York (Albany County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 6, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date August 6, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Trị Province that day. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 100
- SAMUEL BETZStaff Sergeant · August 6, 1969
- GARY MAXWELL CLEMENTSCaptain · August 6, 1969
- NORMAND ALFRED CORBINLance Corporal · August 6, 1969
- ALEXANDER A KAOPUIKI JRCorporal · August 6, 1969
From Selkirk
- CHARLES WILLIAM BURKART JRColonel · June 13, 1966
- JARED ARTHUR FRISBIEPrivate First Class · August 19, 1969
- JAMES VINCENT PICARAZZISpecialist Four · February 12, 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.