Rank: Private First Class
Unit: Howitzer Battery, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11C – Indirect Fire Infantryman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal with Valor Device, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Meritorious Unit Citation, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: Forward Observer attached to L Troop, 3/11 ACR
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 5-Oct-1946
Hometown: Garland, Texas
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 8-May-1966
Start of tour: 20-Oct-1966
Incident date: 21-Jul-1967
Date of casualty: 21-Jul-1967
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
James Francis Bean died as a result of a gunshot wound received while a passenger in a military convoy.
Fourteen Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
CPT William Forman Abernethy
PFC James Francis Bean
PFC John Joseph Campa
PFC Roosevelt C. Curley
SP4 Lawrence Michael Dawson
PFC George Arthur Foster
PVT Thomas Francis Ganion
PFC Douglas Wayne Hill
PFC Frank Daniel Leal
PFC Gary Alfred McLennan
PFC Billy Gene Rodgers
SP4 Richard James Schutz
1LT Ponder Ray Sims
PFC James Lemar Whitfield
Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam, YT 430 308
Place of interment: Calvary Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Dallas, Texas, USA
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