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DAVID EDWARD KENNEY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 2, 1947 – June 11, 1969
Service recordDavid Edward Kenney, of Woburn, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1969, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 20
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)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- July 2, 1947
- Home of record
- Woburn, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 11, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1969; two of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 20
- ROLAND FORREST DIPOLOPrivate First Class · June 11, 1969
- TERRY FRANCIS DROWNSpecialist Four · June 11, 1969
- PAUL GUTTERREZ GONZALESPrivate First Class · June 11, 1969
- CHARLES DEE GREENPrivate First Class · June 11, 1969
From Woburn
- JOSEPH LAWRENCE DREWPrivate First Class · December 27, 1965
- WILLIAM COOLEYSergeant · February 9, 1966
- EDWARD STEPHEN OBRIENSeaman · December 4, 1967
- RUSSELL WILLIS NOYESLance Corporal · April 30, 1968
- CHARLES LEO ONEILL JRCorporal · July 19, 1968
- ALAN ROBERT GERRISHHospitalman · September 7, 1968
- JOHN RALPH FRONGILLOWarrant Officer 1 · May 17, 1969
- WILLIAM EDWARD MCCORMACKPrivate · September 2, 1969
- CHARLES MCMAHON JRCorporal · April 29, 1975
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.