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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kenneth Bryan Morris.

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KENNETH BRYAN MORRIS

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

July 16, 1944 – April 28, 1967

Service record

Kenneth Bryan Morris, of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 28, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18E · Line 106

Position of Panel 18E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Map Compiler (1431)
Born
July 16, 1944
Home of record
New Smyrna Beach, Florida (Volusia County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 28, 1967
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 18E, Line 106

From New Smyrna Beach

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.