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KENNETH ARNOL STONEBRAKER
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Air Force
December 25, 1938 – October 28, 1968
Service recordKenneth Arnol Stonebraker, of Hobart, Indiana, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on October 28, 1968, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 51
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Navigator (1535R)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 TRS
- Born
- December 25, 1938
- Home of record
- Hobart, Indiana (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- October 28, 1968
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 28, 1968. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 40W, Line 51
- BARRY ALAN COPPSpecialist Four · October 28, 1968
- DAVID CHARLES SCHULTZPrivate First Class · October 28, 1968
- WILLIAM HARRY STROVENCaptain · October 28, 1968
- DONALD FREDERICK STURGEONSpecialist Four · October 28, 1968
From Hobart
- JOHN WILLIAM LAKECorporal · August 24, 1965
- GORDON SCOTT WILSONMajor · November 22, 1966
- CLIFFORD C BARNETT JRFirst Lieutenant · April 26, 1967
- LARRY DANIEL DRAVESPrivate First Class · May 2, 1967
- FRED W CARPENTERSergeant · June 28, 1967
- STEVEN JAMES MULLETPrivate First Class · July 21, 1967
- JUNIOR R BURNSPlatoon Sergeant · October 16, 1967
- RALF IRVIN SAUNDERSCorporal · November 6, 1967
- CHARLES HUBERT STANLEYFirst Lieutenant · February 27, 1968
- WILLIAM BRACE CAWLEY JRSpecialist Four · March 2, 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.