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ALEXANDER KEARNEY WARD
Captain · U.S. Marine Corps
December 27, 1940 – February 16, 1968
Service recordAlexander Kearney Ward, of Annapolis, Maryland, served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 16, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 68
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Basic Infantry Officer (0301)
- Born
- December 27, 1940
- Home of record
- Annapolis, Maryland (Anne Arundel County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 16, 1968
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 39E, Line 68
- JAMES DAVID MCALISTERPrivate First Class · February 16, 1968
- VALENTINE BERNARD VOLLMERSpecialist Four · February 16, 1968
- CORDELL EMANUEL WOODSLance Corporal · February 16, 1968
- HAROLD WAYNE ABBOTTPrivate First Class · February 17, 1968
From Annapolis
- KURT WILLIAM GAREISSCaptain · February 24, 1965
- WILLIAM EUGENE TUCKER JRLance Corporal · May 3, 1966
- LAWRENCE HENRY DONNELLStaff Sergeant · June 9, 1967
- JAMES S MACVICKAR JRPetty Officer Third Class · July 29, 1967
- ALBERT FLOYD WRIGHT JRCorporal · August 2, 1967
- JERRY WAYNE MUSTAINSpecialist Four · September 15, 1967
- PAUL AUSTIN LEONARDPrivate First Class · November 28, 1967
- TEDDY WAXMANSergeant · November 30, 1967
- WILMER PAUL COOKLieutenant Commander · December 22, 1967
- CARLISLE OGDEN WARK JRPrivate First Class · May 11, 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.