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JOSEPH BENSON WALKER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 14, 1947 – June 12, 1969
Service recordJoseph Benson Walker, of Lovell, Wyoming, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 12, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 37
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D CO 3 BN 22 INF 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Lovell, Wyoming (Big Horn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 12, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date June 12, 1969; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 37
- DONALD MICHAEL WAYMANPrivate First Class · June 12, 1969
- GREGORY IRA WERTSLance Corporal · June 12, 1969
- THOMAS MILTON AARON JRSpecialist Four · June 13, 1969
- FEDERICO ALANIZ JRPrivate First Class · June 13, 1969
From Lovell
- PEDRO RODRIGUEZ MONTANEZPrivate First Class · November 19, 1967
- ELTON GENE ANDERSONPrivate First Class · November 4, 1968
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.