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ABRAHAM KAALELE AHUNA
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 17, 1940 – May 17, 1968
Service recordAbraham Kaalele Ahuna, of Honolulu, Hawaii, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 17, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 61E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 61E · Line 21
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. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 17, 1940
- Home of record
- Honolulu, Hawaii (Honolulu County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 17, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
85 names on the Wall carry the date May 17, 1968. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 61E, Line 21
- ROBERT ALFRED WAGNERSergeant · May 16, 1968
- GEORGE HEYWARD WALLINGTONPrivate First Class · May 16, 1968
- TERRY MICHAEL WARDPrivate First Class · May 16, 1968
- STEPHEN LEE WOODARDPrivate First Class · May 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HARRY HENRY DESORMEAUXSergeant · Panel 62E, Line 3
From Honolulu
- JAMES GABRIEL JRSpecialist Five · April 8, 1962
- JAMES HIROSHI ISHIHARAChief Warrant Officer 3 · March 10, 1963
- ALAN YUKIO MATSUURAPrivate First Class · April 12, 1964
- JOSEPH N HAOSergeant First Class · November 14, 1964
- ALBERT KALAHANA KUEWAAirman · September 18, 1964
- FLORENDO B PASCUALSergeant First Class · November 3, 1965
- ROBERT HENRY WHITECorporal · December 3, 1965
- ROY SHIGERU KOBAYASHICaptain · January 23, 1966
- SAMUEL POOKEAOKAL GIFFARDStaff Sergeant · January 25, 1966
- GEORGE GRANT KING WEBB JRLance Corporal · February 10, 1966
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.