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KENNETH ARTHUR THOMASON
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 13, 1944 – April 3, 1971
Service recordKenneth Arthur Thomason, of Algona, Iowa, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 3, 1971, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 103
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- March 13, 1944
- Home of record
- Algona, Iowa (Kossuth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 3, 1971
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date April 3, 1971; two of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 103
- GARY BUTTStaff Sergeant · April 3, 1971
- ALAN DALE GILBERTSONSpecialist Five · April 3, 1971
- RAYFORD HENRY KINGSergeant First Class · April 3, 1971
- ROBERT JESSE KISERStaff Sergeant · April 3, 1971
From Algona
- WILLIAM FRANCIS KERNSpecialist Four · October 8, 1966
- WILLIAM PATRICK HIGGINSFirst Lieutenant · December 28, 1969
- ROBERT DALE FARNHAMSergeant · January 14, 1970
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.