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RAYMOND GLENN BEAM
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 19, 1949 – January 18, 1969
Service recordRaymond Glenn Beam, of Butler, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 18, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 31
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- October 19, 1949
- Home of record
- Butler, Illinois (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 18, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date January 18, 1969; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 114 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 31
- BENJAMIN PERRY BENTONSergeant · January 18, 1969
- FREDDIE ALLEN BONETTIStaff Sergeant · January 18, 1969
- JOSE ANTONIO CASTROStaff Sergeant · January 18, 1969
- ROBERT FRANKLIN COADYMajor · January 18, 1969
Same unit, same day
- WAYNE HOWARD KNOWLTONPrivate First Class · Panel 34W, Line 33
- FERRELL EDWARD MESSERSpecialist Four · Panel 34W, Line 33
From Butler
- JOHN DEWEY WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · October 14, 1967
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.