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WILLIAM ALEXIS BEAUBIEN
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
December 24, 1946 – November 21, 1967
Service recordWilliam Alexis Beaubien, of Turners Falls, Massachusetts, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 21, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 53
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 24, 1946
- Home of record
- Turners Falls, Massachusetts (Franklin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 21, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1967; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 30E, Line 53
- KENT EUGENE BAHNSENSergeant · November 21, 1967
- WILLARD THURMAN BATEMANSpecialist Four · November 21, 1967
- DAVID RAWSON BLACKMAN IIIPrivate First Class · November 21, 1967
- THOMAS GERARD BRADYSergeant · November 21, 1967
From Turners Falls
- STEPHEN WINFIELD DAVISFirst Lieutenant · August 18, 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.