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JOSEPH STANLEY MCKINNEY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 20, 1947 – January 23, 1968
Service recordJoseph Stanley McKinney, of Basin, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 23, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 17
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)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- July 20, 1947
- Home of record
- Basin, West Virginia (Wyoming County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 23, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1968; seven of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 17
- DONALD GORDON MACINTOSHSpecialist Four · January 23, 1968
- JOHN T MCCHESNEY IIISpecialist Four · January 23, 1968
- THOMAS RICKARD PEARSON JRSecond Lieutenant · January 23, 1968
- JOSEPH VIEIRASpecialist Four · January 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES MAYNARD BERGESpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 13
- HILAIRE ALBERT ANDRY JRSpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 14
- JAMES IRVING BUCHNERSpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 14
- RONNIE JOE ESKEWSpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 15
- JOHN FORMAN LOBSINGERSpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 16
- LEE ANDRES LUALLINPrivate First Class · Panel 35E, Line 16
- DONALD GORDON MACINTOSHSpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 17
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.