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LAWRENCE FREDERICK BEALS
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 30, 1937 – February 25, 1968
Service recordLawrence Frederick Beals, of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 25, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 16
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- April 30, 1937
- Home of record
- Bridgewater, Massachusetts (Plymouth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 25, 1968
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
96 names on the Wall carry the date February 25, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 41E, Line 16
- DONNELL BELLPrivate · February 25, 1968
- JAMES E BENTLEY JRPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- FREDERICK A BILLINGHAM JRCorporal · February 25, 1968
- JAMES CURTIS BLOUNTSpecialist Four · February 25, 1968
From Bridgewater
- GLENN ALFRED MENOWSKYPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- LAWRENCE KENT DOWDLance Corporal · August 11, 1969
- WALTER JOSEPH KACSOCK JRSpecialist Four · July 21, 1970
- ROBERT EDWARD MORRIS JRSpecialist Four · November 3, 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.