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JOHN WADE KINNEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 22, 1947 – February 21, 1968
Service recordJohn Wade Kinney, of Aline, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 21, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 54
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- November 22, 1947
- Home of record
- Aline, Oklahoma (Alfalfa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 21, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date February 21, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 54
- WILLIAM THOMAS CONLEYSpecialist Four · February 21, 1968
- JOHN JEROME KOPFERAirman First Class · February 21, 1968
- FRANK RONALD MANELLOSpecialist Four · February 21, 1968
- WILBERT PETERSPrivate First Class · February 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND DOUGLAS BURBAGESergeant · Panel 40E, Line 51
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.