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JOHN ROBERT BEAN
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 27, 1939 – November 29, 1970
Service recordJohn Robert Bean, of Parker, Florida, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 29, 1970, in Laos, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 89
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 27, 1939
- Home of record
- Parker, Florida (Bay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 29, 1970
- Age
- 31
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1970. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 6W, Line 89
- THOMAS CALVERT FINNFirst Lieutenant · November 24, 1970
- RONALD EUGENE SMITHSergeant First Class · November 28, 1970
- CRAIG NELSON WARDLance Corporal · November 28, 1970
- EARNEST WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · November 28, 1970
- GARY ANDERSONPrivate · November 29, 1970
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.