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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frank Joseph Kilkenny.

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FRANK JOSEPH KILKENNY

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

September 7, 1942 – June 1, 1967

Service record

Frank Joseph Kilkenny, of New York, New York, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 1, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 27

Position of Panel 21E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Machinegunner (0331)
Born
September 7, 1942
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 1, 1967
Age
24
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date June 1, 1967; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 27

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.