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KENNETH CLAYTON FRIDDLE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
February 20, 1932 – October 8, 1966
Service recordKenneth Clayton Friddle, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 8, 1966, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 62
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Cook (3371)
- Born
- February 20, 1932
- Home of record
- Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 8, 1966
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date October 8, 1966; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 11E, Line 62
- EDWARD DAVID LARSONPrivate First Class · October 8, 1966
- BILLY LEESpecialist Four · October 8, 1966
- ALAN FRANK LUCASSpecialist Four · October 8, 1966
- JOHN WILLIAM MILLERLance Corporal · October 8, 1966
- BILLY FRANKLIN MOONEYHAMPrivate First Class · October 8, 1966
From Atlanta
- DAVID NIPPERLance Corporal · November 21, 1964
- JAMES ANTHONY COYAirman First Class · June 11, 1965
- JAMES THARPE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1965
- WESLIE DAVID MEWBORNPetty Officer First Class · September 8, 1964
- DOUGLAS HORACE LEACHSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- RONNIE THOMAS MATHISSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GEORGE S MCHELLONSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 1965
- CLIFFORD THOMAS JOHNSONPrivate · January 29, 1966
- HARVEY LEWIS BOWEN JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
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.