Name: CPT Arthur James Beach
Status: Body Not Recovered from an incident on 03/20/1966 while performing the duty of Pilot.
Age at death: 27.6
Date of Birth: 08/29/1938
Home City: Orange Cove, CA
Service: regular component of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Unit: HMM-163
Service: U.S. Marine Corps.
The Wall location: 06E-025
Short Summary: With Ferguson.
Aircraft: UH-34D tail number 149351
Service number: 080673
Country: South Vietnam
MOS: 7335 = Pilot HMH
Primary cause: SVN-BNR-OW
"Official" listing: helicopter air casualty - other aircrew
Length of service: 04
Location: Offshore, MR 1 Province I Corps.
Reason: aircraft lost or crashed at sea
Casualty type: Non-hostile - died of other causes
married male U.S. citizen
Race: Caucasian
Religion: no religous preference
This record was last updated on 02/21/1994
This information is available on CD-ROM.
Additional information is available on KIAs at http://www.coffeltdatabase.org
Please send additions or corrections to: The VHPA Webmaster Gary Roush.
KIA statistics
Return to the Helicopter Pilot KIA name list
Return to the KIA panel date index
Date posted on this site: 11/13/2023
Copyright © 1998 - 2023 Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association