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JOSEPH KENT SEARLE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 11, 1947 – September 24, 1968
Service recordJoseph Kent Searle, of Park City, Utah, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 24, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 7
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)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- December 11, 1947
- Home of record
- Park City, Utah (Summit County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 24, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date September 24, 1968; four of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 42W, Line 7
- JAMES E PENNINGTON JRCorporal · September 24, 1968
- ARLON GLENN SCHAEFFERPrivate First Class · September 24, 1968
- DARWIN HUGH SHELTONPrivate First Class · September 24, 1968
- PAUL JOHN SILBERBERGERMajor · September 24, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS JOSEPH SMOCZYNSKIPrivate First Class · Panel 42W, Line 3
- LOUIS ANDREW NIEMEYER JRSergeant · Panel 42W, Line 6
- MICHAEL ALLEN NIEZGODASergeant · Panel 42W, Line 6
- JAMES E PENNINGTON JRCorporal · Panel 42W, Line 7
- PAUL JOHN SILBERBERGERMajor · Panel 42W, Line 7
- SAMUEL FREDERICK ANKNEYFirst Lieutenant · Panel 42W, Line 8
From Park City
- ALLAN LEON MAIRPetty Officer Third Class · March 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.