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KENDAL ROBERT KRUSE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 23, 1947 – March 29, 1968
Service recordKendal Robert Kruse, of Glenwood, Iowa, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 29, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 1
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- April 23, 1947
- Home of record
- Glenwood, Iowa (Mills County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 29, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date March 29, 1968; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
He died in Pleiku 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 47E, Line 1
- WILLIAM PAUL HURLEY JRMajor · March 29, 1968
- LARRY ALBERT IANNETTASpecialist Five · March 29, 1968
- ANIELLO CARLOS NUNZIATOCorporal · March 29, 1968
- NATHANIEL WILLINGHAMPrivate First Class · March 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FRANCIS ALAN ANDERSONSergeant · Panel 46E, Line 61
- JAMES WAYNE MULTHAUPTCorporal · Panel 47E, Line 3
From Glenwood
- GARY LYNN WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · August 7, 1966
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.