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JOHN LEE BINGLEY JR
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
October 2, 1947 – March 17, 1968
Service recordJohn Lee Bingley JR, of Charleston, South Carolina, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 17, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 8
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- October 2, 1947
- Home of record
- Charleston, South Carolina (Charleston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 17, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 17, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Trị Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 45E, Line 8
- JAMES GUY BLACKSHEARSpecialist Four · March 17, 1968
- RALPH ALTON BRANSON JRPrivate First Class · March 17, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT BURCH JRAirman · March 17, 1968
- DANIEL LEE BURRSergeant · March 17, 1968
From Charleston
- CLARENCE LARRY MOORERCaptain · December 12, 1963
- THEODORE RICHARDSONSpecialist Four · October 2, 1965
- CHARLES GALE DUSINGChief Master Sergeant · October 31, 1965
- EARL CLAYTON GRAHAMSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- HAROLD T EDMONDSON JRCorporal · January 30, 1966
- JAMES BRADLEYSergeant · February 5, 1966
- BURTON ALEXANDER BLANTONCaptain · March 30, 1966
- WALTER H ANDERSONPrivate First Class · April 16, 1966
- RANDOLPH CLINTON SCOTTPrivate First Class · May 18, 1966
- HAROLD MACK JRPrivate First Class · May 21, 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.