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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Morris Sampson Beeson.

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MORRIS SAMPSON BEESON

Chief Petty Officer · U.S. Coast Guard

March 8, 1932 – March 22, 1969

Service record

Morris Sampson Beeson, of Pitkin, Louisiana, served as a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Coast Guard. He died on March 22, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 28W · Line 8

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Service

Branch
U.S. Coast Guard
Rank
Chief Petty Officer (CPO)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Engineman (EN)
Unit (as recorded)
12 COSTL DIV
Born
March 8, 1932
Home of record
Pitkin, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
March 22, 1969
Age
37
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Ship/Submarine Accident At Sea (MC)

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46 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1969. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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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.