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KENNETH AUBREY PETERSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 14, 1947 – November 20, 1967
Service recordKenneth Aubrey Peterson, of Roanoke, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 20, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 48
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Roanoke, Texas (Denton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 20, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
79 names on the Wall carry the date November 20, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 48
- DENNIS GREENWALDPrivate First Class · November 20, 1967
- ARNOLD PINNPrivate First Class · November 20, 1967
- WALTER DONALD RAYSpecialist Four · November 20, 1967
- LEONARD JEFFREY RICHARDSPrivate First Class · November 20, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GREGORY SCOTT FENNIMOREPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 41
From Roanoke
- ROBERT EARNEST SCHOPPAULSergeant · March 11, 1967
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.