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ALAN SPENCE KOHN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 6, 1947 – March 26, 1968
Service recordAlan Spence Kohn, of Columbia, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 36
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Columbia, South Carolina (Richland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1968; four of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 188 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 36
- KENNETH KAMINSKIPrivate First Class · March 26, 1968
- ERNEST CLANEY KERR JRLance Corporal · March 26, 1968
- PHILIP JAMES KREK JRSergeant · March 26, 1968
- WAYNE DALE KRUEGERPrivate First Class · March 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT LEE BUTLERPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 30
- JAMES HENRY CAMPBELL JRSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 30
- BARTON WAINWRIGHT CAREYPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 30
- LARRY EUGENE ELMOREPrivate · Panel 46E, Line 31
From Columbia
- EARTHELL TYLERSergeant · November 17, 1965
- LUIS BELT R LOPEZPlatoon Sergeant · December 5, 1965
- EDDIE KENNETH WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · June 30, 1966
- THOMAS JASPER MAULDINStaff Sergeant · September 3, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD MACMICHAELSergeant First Class · September 17, 1966
- RICHARD FLOYD WALTERSPrivate First Class · October 2, 1966
- CARROLL U THOMPSONCaptain · November 11, 1966
- DOUGLAS THOMAS JRAirman · August 4, 1966
- FORDHAM E FINCH JRPrivate First Class · January 13, 1967
- RICHARD BELTON BROCKMANCaptain · January 17, 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.