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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frederick Carmen Kunna.

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FREDERICK CARMEN KUNNA

Corporal · U.S. Army

November 8, 1946 – March 20, 1967

Service record

Frederick Carmen Kunna, of Mt Clemens, Michigan, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on March 20, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 123 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 123

Position of Panel 16E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
November 8, 1946
Home of record
Mt Clemens, Michigan (Macomb County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 20, 1967
Age
20
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

48 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1967; 20 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 120 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 123

Same unit, same day

From Mt Clemens

All 23 names from Mt Clemens →

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.