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BILLY DON KENNINGTON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 4, 1942 – March 19, 1968
Service recordBilly Don Kennington, of Charlotte, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 19, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 34
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 4, 1942
- Home of record
- Charlotte, North Carolina (Mecklenburg County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 19, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date March 19, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
He died in Kien Hoa 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.
Read the history
Also on Panel 45E, Line 34
- SAM ZEB HUGHESPrivate First Class · March 19, 1968
- CLARENCE JEFFERSON JRPrivate First Class · March 19, 1968
- JEFFREY ROBERT JORDANPrivate First Class · March 19, 1968
- NIKOLAI KIATKINSpecialist Four · March 19, 1968
From Charlotte
- HARRY WILLIAM LOVE JRPrivate First Class · June 30, 1965
- EDWARD DEAN BROWN JRLieutenant (junior grade) · July 29, 1965
- TROY MILLER THOMPSON JRPrivate First Class · September 26, 1965
- REGINALD ALVIN WATKINSSergeant · November 15, 1965
- GERRALD AUNDRE STANSELLSergeant · February 8, 1966
- FREDDIE WALLACE GREENSergeant · February 19, 1966
- JOHNSON FRANCIS FRANKStaff Sergeant · February 26, 1966
- LOOMIS OGLESBY IIISpecialist Four · March 3, 1966
- ROBERT LEWIS DIALPrivate First Class · March 15, 1966
- RONALD MARTIN SUTTONCorporal · March 18, 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.