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CHARLES F KENNEDY
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 18, 1934 – March 7, 1967
Service recordCharles F Kennedy, of Blytheville, Arkansas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 7, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 35
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 18, 1934
- Home of record
- Blytheville, Arkansas (Mississippi County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 7, 1967
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 7, 1967; six of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. 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
On the Wall
Also on Panel 16E, Line 35
- DEAN FRANKLIN FOXSpecialist Four · March 7, 1967
- JOHN CHARLES HAINES JRChief Petty Officer · March 7, 1967
- ROBERT EDWARD KASPERPetty Officer Third Class · March 7, 1967
- JAMES KELLY KEITH IIIPrivate First Class · March 7, 1967
Same unit, same day
- BENNIE LEE CROSSSergeant · Panel 16E, Line 34
- JAMES KELLY KEITH IIIPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 35
From Blytheville
- FREDDIE LYNN FRIARPrivate First Class · March 9, 1967
- WILLIE B BRADFORDSpecialist Four · March 9, 1968
- BURNELL WILLIAMS JRSpecialist Four · April 20, 1968
- HORACE VALLEY ROBINSON JRSpecialist Four · November 20, 1968
- ROBERT EARL GRANTCorporal · March 8, 1969
- WILLIAM HENRY BROWNLance Corporal · March 11, 1969
- LARRY MILTON KELLEYSergeant · April 7, 1969
- MARVIN EARL BELLStaff Sergeant · June 30, 1970
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.