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SAMMIE LEE BEDWELL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 18, 1945 – January 30, 1966
Service recordSammie Lee Bedwell, of Friendship, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 30, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 117 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 117
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
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- May 18, 1945
- Home of record
- Friendship, Tennessee (Crockett County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 30, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date January 30, 1966; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 117
- JAMES DARRELL WHITE JRPrivate First Class · January 29, 1966
- ALLAN JAMES WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · January 29, 1966
- THOMAS DARRELL WILLIAMSONSpecialist Four · January 29, 1966
- TERRANCE DEAN ADAMSCorporal · January 30, 1966
From Friendship
- HUBERT HARROL MORGAN JRPetty Officer Third Class · July 29, 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.