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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kenneth Edward Beauregard.

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KENNETH EDWARD BEAUREGARD

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

December 24, 1946 – March 5, 1966

Service record

Kenneth Edward Beauregard, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 5, 1966, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5E · Line 113

Position of Panel 5E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Unit (as recorded)
G CO 2 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV
Born
December 24, 1946
Home of record
New Bedford, Massachusetts (Bristol County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 5, 1966
Age
19
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

72 names on the Wall carry the date March 5, 1966; 51 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “G CO 2 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 5E, Line 113

From New Bedford

All 26 names from New Bedford →

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.