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JOHN BEECHLY COMBS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 15, 1947 – April 18, 1969
Service recordJohn Beechly Combs, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 18, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 106
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Observation/Scout Helicopter Repairer (67V)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- November 15, 1947
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 18, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date April 18, 1969; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 83 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 106
- CHARLES CHANDLERSpecialist Four · April 18, 1969
- CURTIS KEITH COOK JRPrivate First Class · April 18, 1969
- ROBERT MAURICE CUNNINGHAMPrivate First Class · April 18, 1969
- GEORGE CLARENCE DAHLMANSpecialist Five · April 18, 1969
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS ARTHUR DAVISChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 27W, Line 107
- HAROLD LEE ECKERT JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 27W, Line 108
- LLOYD WESLEY JONESSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 109
- ROBERT JOSEPH NEVELSergeant · Panel 26W, Line 2
- JOHN CHARLES SHELLUMSpecialist Four · Panel 26W, Line 4
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.