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AADO KOMMENDANT
Major · U.S. Air Force
August 9, 1941 – August 8, 1966
Service recordAado Kommendant, of Lakewood, New Jersey, served as a Major in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on August 8, 1966, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9E · Line 114
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pilot (1115R)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 557 TFS
- Born
- August 9, 1941
- Home of record
- Lakewood, New Jersey (Ocean County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- August 8, 1966
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date August 8, 1966; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “557 TFS”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 9E, Line 114
- ANDY JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · August 8, 1966
- DOUGLAS WAYNE JONESPrivate First Class · August 8, 1966
- JOHN ALDA KEMPCaptain · August 8, 1966
- JOHN JORDAN KOLZSpecialist Four · August 8, 1966
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES MILTON WALLINGMajor · Panel 9E, Line 119
From Lakewood
- CECIL BERNARD NICKENSSpecialist Four · August 9, 1967
- KEVIN LESLIE GREENESergeant · September 27, 1968
- WILLIAM PAUL BENNPrivate First Class · June 6, 1969
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.