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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Harold Kenneth Ring.

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HAROLD KENNETH RING

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

July 10, 1947 – February 23, 1969

Service record

Harold Kenneth Ring, of Leavenworth, Kansas, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31W · Line 18

Position of Panel 31W 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
July 10, 1947
Home of record
Leavenworth, Kansas (Leavenworth County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 23, 1969
Age
21
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

209 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1969; 29 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 119 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31W, Line 18

Same unit, same day

From Leavenworth

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.