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JAMES EDWARD KENNEDY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 2, 1950 – December 22, 1969
Service recordJames Edward Kennedy, of Pine Hill, New Jersey, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on December 22, 1969, in Cambodia, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 81
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Motor Transport Operator (64C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- January 2, 1950
- Home of record
- Pine Hill, New Jersey (Camden County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- December 22, 1969
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date December 22, 1969. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 15W, Line 81
- ROBERT ALAN YATESLance Corporal · December 21, 1969
- THADDEUS M YONIKA JRWarrant Officer 1 · December 21, 1969
- DONALD DEANE BURRIS JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · December 22, 1969
- FRANK HALL JRLance Corporal · December 22, 1969
Same unit, same day
- PETER PAUL PARNELL JRWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 15W, Line 83
- JOHN NORMENT RANSONSpecialist Four · Panel 15W, Line 83
- HARRY FRANKLIN ZALESNY JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 15W, Line 84
From Pine Hill
- JOHN STANBOROUGH CARTWRIGHTPrivate First Class · May 4, 1967
- HENRY JOSEPH BOYE JRPrivate First Class · May 31, 1968
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.