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KENNETH ALLEN TUTTLE
Corporal · U.S. Army
August 28, 1949 – December 31, 1968
Service recordKenneth Allen Tuttle, of Martins Ferry, Ohio, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on December 31, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 14
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 28, 1949
- Home of record
- Martins Ferry, Ohio (Belmont County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 31, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date December 31, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 35W, Line 14
- ROBERT HENRY SINCLAIR JRSergeant · December 31, 1968
- FRANCIS C SULLIVAN JRSpecialist Four · December 31, 1968
- ROBERT MICHAEL SULLIVANPrivate First Class · December 31, 1968
- ROGER LOUIS BROWNSpecialist Five · January 1, 1969
From Martins Ferry
- WILLIAM RUSSELL HINERMANPrivate First Class · September 18, 1966
- RONALD DEAN STARRPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- DAVID LEE MCPHERSONPrivate First Class · February 7, 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.