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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 James D Kendall.

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JAMES D KENDALL

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 29, 1948 – April 25, 1968

Service record

James D Kendall, of National City, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 25, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 52E · Line 7

Position of Panel 52E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Oh-13/Oh-23 Helicopter Repairman (67M)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
January 29, 1948
Home of record
National City, California (San Diego County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 25, 1968
Age
20
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

53 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 52E, Line 7

Same unit, same day

From National City

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.