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WALTER LEE BECKWITH JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 4, 1949 – March 6, 1970
Service recordWalter Lee Beckwith JR, of Deerfield Beach, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13W · Line 87
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 4, 1949
- Home of record
- Deerfield Beach, Florida (Broward County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 6, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1970; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13W, Line 87
- THOMAS CLIFFORD CHANEYCorporal · March 6, 1970
- MICHAEL JOSEPH CONNELLPrivate First Class · March 6, 1970
- OREN LEE CROOKSpecialist Four · March 6, 1970
- JAMES WARREN FINZELMaster Sergeant · March 6, 1970
Same unit, same day
- OREN LEE CROOKSpecialist Four · Panel 13W, Line 87
- ROBERT LEWIS WEBSTERPrivate First Class · Panel 13W, Line 90
From Deerfield Beach
- JOSEPH HUDSON JRPrivate First Class · February 21, 1968
- DAVID WILLIAM GASKINLance Corporal · June 16, 1968
- MICHAEL HARRY CORWINSergeant · May 17, 1970
- JOSEPH PATRICK LUTZSpecialist Four · June 20, 1970
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.