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KENNETH ALBERT WEDMAN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 18, 1946 – September 12, 1968
Service recordKenneth Albert Wedman, of Newark, California, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 12, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 43
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 18, 1946
- Home of record
- Newark, California (Alameda County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 12, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Heart Related
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date September 12, 1968; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 80 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 43
- JAMES ANDERSEN SMITHFirst Lieutenant · September 12, 1968
- ROBERT RALPH WEISSFirst Lieutenant · September 12, 1968
- JAMES HARDY WHITESergeant · September 12, 1968
- J C WILLIAMS JRSpecialist Four · September 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DONALD RAY BUTLERCorporal · Panel 44W, Line 35
- DAVID COURTNEY DAHLINSergeant · Panel 44W, Line 36
- LEONARD JOSEPH LIPAROTOPrivate First Class · Panel 44W, Line 38
- JOSEPH MACONPrivate First Class · Panel 44W, Line 39
From Newark
- ROBERT CARL BOYDPrivate First Class · December 22, 1966
- MARTIN WALTER MORENOSpecialist Four · January 5, 1967
- JOSEPH LYNWOOD SHREVE JRFirst Lieutenant · May 1, 1968
- ROBERT EUGENE SMITH JRSpecialist Five · December 20, 1968
- PAUL GEORGE TELLESPrivate First Class · January 31, 1969
- VAN HARVEY PEARSONSpecialist Four · February 26, 1969
- RAUL ROY BARRERA JRSpecialist Four · November 24, 1969
- MARK JEFFERY MILLERPrivate First Class · January 26, 1973
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.