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JAMES STEPHEN BENNETT
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 30, 1948 – April 30, 1968
Service recordJames Stephen Bennett, of Augusta, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 30, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 53E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53E · Line 9
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 30, 1948
- Home of record
- Augusta, Georgia (Richmond County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 30, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date April 30, 1968; 53 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 53E, Line 9
- GARY WISNIERSpecialist Four · April 29, 1968
- GARY LEE YOUNGSpecialist Four · April 29, 1968
- WALTER FRASIER BARNESCorporal · April 30, 1968
- CHARLES JOEL BEHM JRSergeant · April 30, 1968
From Augusta
- WILLIAM JEFFERSON LINDSEYPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- TOMMIE GARRETTCorporal · December 18, 1965
- PAUL EUGENE SWIMPlatoon Sergeant · May 8, 1966
- ROGER DORSEYPrivate First Class · May 10, 1966
- PHILLIP MALCOLM PIERCE JRPrivate First Class · July 22, 1966
- PHILLIP JACOB MOOGSecond Lieutenant · August 10, 1966
- HOWARD D ULMER JRFirst Lieutenant · October 3, 1966
- WILLIAM FORSYTH SPERRYSpecialist Four · November 13, 1966
- ROBERT RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- GERALD WAYNE INGLETTPrivate First Class · June 4, 1967
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.