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EDWARD KENNEY
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 27, 1933 – May 23, 1965
Service recordEdward Kenney, of Cliffside Park, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 23, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 123 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 123
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- April 27, 1933
- Home of record
- Cliffside Park, New Jersey (Bergen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 23, 1965
- Age
- 32
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Four names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1965. In May 1965, 89 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 1E, Line 123
- MURREL D THOMASStaff Sergeant · May 22, 1965
- TROY LEE WATERSSpecialist Four · May 22, 1965
- BRICKIE BOWMAN JRPrivate · May 23, 1965
- CHARLES ROBERT SMITHLance Corporal · May 23, 1965
Same unit, same day
- ORIEN JUDSON WALKER JRMajor · Panel 1E, Line 124
From Cliffside Park
- ROBERT JOSEPH BETZPrivate First Class · February 10, 1965
- DONALD ARRIBILance Corporal · June 7, 1969
- PETER LOUIS PROCOPIOSpecialist Four · March 11, 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.