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LESTER ERWIN BECKER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 31, 1941 – November 30, 1965
Service recordLester Erwin Becker, of Harvard, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 30, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 118 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 118
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- December 31, 1941
- Home of record
- Harvard, Illinois (Mchenry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 30, 1965
- Age
- 23
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Three names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 318 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3E, Line 118
- RALPH GERALD HAMLIN JRPrivate First Class · November 29, 1965
- GEORGE LEO STOLTZMANCorporal · November 29, 1965
- TYRONE SIDNEY PANNELLSecond Lieutenant · November 30, 1965
- STEPHEN GOULD RICHARDSONLieutenant (junior grade) · November 30, 1965
From Harvard
- GARY ROBERT KIESELBURGCorporal · May 6, 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.