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ALEXANDER KING
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 26, 1947 – January 20, 1969
Service recordAlexander King, of Woodbine, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 20, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 42
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 26, 1947
- Home of record
- Woodbine, Georgia (Camden County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 20, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date January 20, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 31 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 42
- KENNETH RAE MCGUIRECorporal · September 28, 1968
- MIGUEL HEREDIAPrivate First Class · January 20, 1969
- OTIS KENNEYPrivate First Class · January 20, 1969
- FRED DUANE KESTERPrivate · January 20, 1969
- RAYMOND JIM KOZIKSergeant · January 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JIMMY LEON GREENSpecialist Four · Panel 34W, Line 41
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.