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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Terrence Daniel Beck.

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TERRENCE DANIEL BECK

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

July 13, 1949 – December 20, 1967

Service record

Terrence Daniel Beck, of Ft Atkinson, Wisconsin, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 20, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 29

Position of Panel 32E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
July 13, 1949
Home of record
Ft Atkinson, Wisconsin (Jefferson County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 20, 1967
Age
18
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1967; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 29

From Ft Atkinson

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.