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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Timothy Wayne Beverford.

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TIMOTHY WAYNE BEVERFORD

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 15, 1949 – July 28, 1969

Service record

Timothy Wayne Beverford, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 28, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20W · Line 63

Position of Panel 20W 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
August 15, 1949
Home of record
Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 28, 1969
Age
19
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date July 28, 1969; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 20W, Line 63

Same unit, same day

From Los Angeles

All 540 names from Los Angeles →

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.