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JAMES EDWARD KIRN
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 20, 1945 – March 16, 1967
Service recordJames Edward Kirn, of Glasgow, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 16, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 92
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radio Teletype Operator (05C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HHB 2 BN 35 ARTY
- Born
- August 20, 1945
- Home of record
- Glasgow, Kentucky (Barren County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1967; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 92
- RONALD JOSEPH IMPERIALELance Corporal · March 16, 1967
- GEORGE DENNIS JOHNSONPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
- CHARLES MICHAEL KING JRSecond Lieutenant · March 16, 1967
- LLOYD NELSON KURTZPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
From Glasgow
- MURREL D THOMASStaff Sergeant · May 22, 1965
- STEPHEN EVANS THOMASSpecialist Four · May 6, 1966
- KENNETH WALTER PICKETTStaff Sergeant · May 17, 1966
- ALBERT DOUGLAS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 20, 1968
- WARDELL LESTER ARMSTRONGPrivate First Class · October 9, 1968
- DOUGLAS COMPTONSpecialist Five · October 11, 1968
- REX DOUGLAS HARLOWCorporal · June 30, 1969
- EDWARD LEO KINGREYSpecialist Four · July 14, 1969
- JOHN SPENCER BAILEY JRPrivate First Class · July 22, 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.