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GEORGE PERCY KENDALL JR
Gunnery Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
February 6, 1930 – February 4, 1968
Service recordGeorge Percy Kendall JR, of Missoula, Montana, served as a Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 4, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 23
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Gunnery Sergeant (GYSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Interrogation/Translation Specialist (0251)
- Born
- February 6, 1930
- Home of record
- Missoula, Montana (Missoula County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 4, 1968
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date February 4, 1968; 28 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 23
- ROBERT E HOPKINSSergeant · February 4, 1968
- ROBERT WALKER HUBBARDCaptain · February 4, 1968
- ERNEST LINWOOD JACOBS JRCorporal · February 4, 1968
- YAZZIE B TEN HUSKIESpecialist Four · February 4, 1968
From Missoula
- WILLIAM LOUIS CYRPrivate First Class · November 8, 1966
- JACOB FRANCIS STEPANCaptain · March 10, 1967
- MICHAEL WILLIAM HAVRANEKLance Corporal · June 11, 1967
- DONALD ALEXANDER LEHUTALance Corporal · June 15, 1967
- DOUGLAS LAWRENCE FRIEDSergeant · September 25, 1967
- ANTHONY BLAKE CADWELLPrivate · October 17, 1967
- ALAN LEE BOYERSergeant First Class · March 28, 1968
- LIONEL RUSSELL CRASELance Corporal · April 7, 1968
- ROBERT HUGH CARROLLMajor · May 12, 1968
- DAVID PATRICK SULLIVANSecond Lieutenant · September 4, 1968
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.