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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kenneth C Kraus.

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KENNETH C KRAUS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 14, 1944 – July 10, 1966

Service record

Kenneth C Kraus, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 10, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9E · Line 15

Position of Panel 9E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
September 14, 1944
Home of record
Minneapolis, Minnesota (Hennepin County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 10, 1966
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date July 10, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 9E, Line 15

From Minneapolis

All 193 names from Minneapolis →

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.