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CHARLES FLOYD KENNEDY
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 7, 1941 – October 17, 1967
Service recordCharles Floyd Kennedy, of Garden City, Utah, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 17, 1967, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 26
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- August 7, 1941
- Home of record
- Garden City, Utah (Rich County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 17, 1967
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
75 names on the Wall carry the date October 17, 1967; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28E, Line 26
- ALAN THEODORE JENSENSergeant · October 17, 1967
- RICHARD WILLIAM JONESPrivate First Class · October 17, 1967
- JOHN DANIEL KRISCHEPrivate First Class · October 17, 1967
- JERRY DAVID LANCASTERSpecialist Four · October 17, 1967
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.