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JAMES KENNEDY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 23, 1947 – November 30, 1968
Service recordJames Kennedy, of Seale, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 30, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 12
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- November 23, 1947
- Home of record
- Seale, Alabama (Russell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 30, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 12
- RONALD EUGENE JAMESSergeant · November 30, 1968
- JERRY WAYNE JEFFERSONPrivate First Class · November 30, 1968
- ROGER RAY KERNSPrivate First Class · November 30, 1968
- JOSEPH KRESIC JRPrivate First Class · November 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT LYNN FOX JRPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 10
- LONNIE GENE MARTINSpecialist Four · Panel 37W, Line 13
From Seale
- WILLIE JAMES ROBINSONSpecialist Four · January 11, 1966
- CLARENCE LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · January 9, 1967
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.