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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kenneth Alric Gore.

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KENNETH ALRIC GORE

Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 2, 1948 – June 3, 1967

Service record

Kenneth Alric Gore, of Shallotte, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 3, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 46

Position of Panel 21E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
July 2, 1948
Home of record
Shallotte, North Carolina (Brunswick County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 3, 1967
Age
18
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

70 names on the Wall carry the date June 3, 1967; seven of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 95 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 46

Same unit, same day

From Shallotte

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.