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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jimmy Dale Bean.

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JIMMY DALE BEAN

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

November 25, 1943 – March 25, 1969

Service record

Jimmy Dale Bean, of Amarillo, Texas, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28W · Line 32

Position of Panel 28W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
November 25, 1943
Home of record
Amarillo, Texas (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 25, 1969
Age
25
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

51 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1969; eight of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 121 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28W, Line 32

Same unit, same day

From Amarillo

All 52 names from Amarillo →

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.