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KENNETH CLARENCE STOMMES
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
March 3, 1947 – October 27, 1967
Service recordKenneth Clarence Stommes, of Cold Spring, Minnesota, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 27, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 87
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- March 3, 1947
- Home of record
- Cold Spring, Minnesota (Stearns County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 27, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date October 27, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 28E, Line 87
- FRANCIS PHILLIP SCHMAUTZCorporal · October 27, 1967
- DAVID LOUIS STOLLCorporal · October 27, 1967
- JON PETER TURKCorporal · October 27, 1967
- THOMAS FRANCIS UHLCorporal · October 27, 1967
From Cold Spring
- DAVID FRANK WEBERPrivate First Class · January 15, 1966
- MELVIN JEROME DECKERLance Corporal · April 27, 1968
- GENE LEO SALZERSpecialist Four · February 23, 1969
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.