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GERALD CARL KINNY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 30, 1949 – January 31, 1968
Service recordGerald Carl Kinny, of Toledo, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 31, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 19
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- April 30, 1949
- Home of record
- Toledo, Iowa (Tama County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 28 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 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 36E, Line 19
- ROBERT KEMELMACHERPetty Officer Third Class · January 31, 1968
- WARREN EUGENE KENERLYCorporal · January 31, 1968
- RICHARD ALLEN KERRFirst Lieutenant · January 31, 1968
- FREDRICK MARTIN KITTLECaptain · January 31, 1968
From Toledo
- WILLIAM JAY BALFOURCorporal · September 21, 1967
- GARY LADD SQUIERSPrivate First Class · January 28, 1969
- NORBERT ALBERT PODHAJSKYCaptain · November 29, 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.