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BRUCE JAMES KENNEDY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 28, 1949 – November 14, 1968
Service recordBruce James Kennedy, of Chelsea, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 14, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 67
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 28, 1949
- Home of record
- Chelsea, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 14, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- 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 November 14, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 67
- KENNETH ALLEN HODGESSergeant First Class · November 14, 1968
- WAYNE MORRIS HORNEPrivate First Class · November 14, 1968
- ROBERT TAYLOR JONES JRPrivate First Class · November 14, 1968
- DAVID MICHAEL MORRISWarrant Officer 1 · November 14, 1968
From Chelsea
- SHELDON ROBERT COHENPrivate First Class · May 29, 1966
- MICHAEL THOMAS FITZPATRICKPrivate First Class · July 10, 1966
- FRANK MICHAEL SOKOLOWSKIPrivate First Class · October 7, 1966
- EVERETT ALBERT ALLENSeaman · July 29, 1967
- EDWARD JOHN ROSSERPrivate First Class · August 16, 1967
- JOHN EDWARD MADIGAN JRPrivate First Class · October 7, 1967
- SALVATORE AGRI JRPrivate First Class · April 9, 1968
- CYRIL MITCHELL JRSpecialist Four · September 11, 1968
- WILLIAM F THOMPSON JRSpecialist Four · March 24, 1971
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.