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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 Irving S Chenoweth III.

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IRVING S CHENOWETH III

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

November 3, 1943 – April 13, 1969

Service record

Irving S Chenoweth III, of Bloomington, Illinois, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 13, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27W · Line 71

Position of Panel 27W 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
Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
November 3, 1943
Home of record
Bloomington, Illinois (Mclean County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 13, 1969
Age
25
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

47 names on the Wall carry the date April 13, 1969; 21 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 87 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 27W, Line 71

Same unit, same day

From Bloomington

All 18 names from Bloomington →

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.