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Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965.
Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael August Beringer.

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MICHAEL AUGUST BERINGER

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

January 12, 1946 – November 22, 1965

Service record

Michael August Beringer, of Bluffton, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 22, 1965, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 106

Position of Panel 3E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Artillery Scout Observer (0846)
Born
January 12, 1946
Home of record
Bluffton, Minnesota (Otter Tail County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 22, 1965
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date November 22, 1965; nine of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 106

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.