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HAROLD JAMES KISSINGER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 26, 1947 – September 17, 1968
Service recordHarold James Kissinger, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 17, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 16
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 39 ENG BN
- Born
- July 26, 1947
- Home of record
- Pottsville, Pennsylvania (Schuylkill County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 17, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1968; nine of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “A CO 39 ENG BN”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 16
- REX MICHAEL HOOVERSpecialist Four · September 17, 1968
- MICHAEL WILLIAM ISSENMANNPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- G B JACKSON JRPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- GARY FRANCIS JOHNSTONFirst Lieutenant · September 17, 1968
Same unit, same day
- REX MICHAEL HOOVERSpecialist Four · Panel 43W, Line 16
From Pottsville
- LEONARD RICHARD DEMKOMajor · February 5, 1968
- GEORGE JOSEPH SCHULTZSpecialist Four · February 22, 1968
- EDWARD LYNN DAUBERTLance Corporal · September 21, 1968
- RICHARD DANIEL ROBERTSPrivate First Class · June 24, 1969
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.