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JOSEPH ROBERT BECK JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
February 22, 1944 – October 26, 1967
Service recordJoseph Robert Beck JR, of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on October 26, 1967, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 72
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- February 22, 1944
- Home of record
- Greencastle, Pennsylvania (Franklin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 26, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date October 26, 1967; three of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 28E, Line 72
- RONALD DAVID BENNETTCaptain · October 26, 1967
- RUSSEL DEAN BENTSONWarrant Officer 1 · October 26, 1967
- LARRY DEAN BLEEKERSecond Lieutenant · October 26, 1967
- RICHARD KLEMM BOYD JRMajor · October 26, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ELMER ROBERT LEE ABLES JRSergeant First Class · Panel 28E, Line 71
- JOHN OLIN COOPER IIIMajor · Panel 28E, Line 73
- STEPHEN FREDERICK PETERSFirst Lieutenant · Panel 28E, Line 76
From Greencastle
- OMAR DAVID WITMER JRPrivate First Class · September 17, 1967
- THOMAS RAY COOK JRPrivate First Class · July 26, 1968
- ROBERT WAYNE BOWMANSpecialist Six · March 15, 1969
- RANDY TRUMAN KENDLEPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
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.