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LEE V BEARDEN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 20, 1945 – December 29, 1966
Service recordLee V Bearden, of Stanton, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 29, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 95
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- March 20, 1945
- Home of record
- Stanton, Alabama (Chilton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 29, 1966
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 56 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 95
- JAMES RAYMOND AARDELance Corporal · December 29, 1966
- LUECO ALLEN JRPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
- MICHAEL R BROWNPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
- HERBERT JAMES GABRIELPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
Same unit, same day
- DAVID RAY GATTONPrivate First Class · Panel 13E, Line 97
- TERRY SIDNEY GUNNPrivate First Class · Panel 13E, Line 97
- BILLY NEAL HARPERSpecialist Four · Panel 13E, Line 98
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.