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KENNETH DEAN RANKIN
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
December 4, 1947 – November 16, 1969
Service recordKenneth Dean Rankin, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 16, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16W · Line 85
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
- Engineman (EN)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- December 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Broken Arrow, Oklahoma (Tulsa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 16, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date November 16, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Trị Province that day. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16W, Line 85
- HENRY LEE LIMBACHCorporal · November 16, 1969
- LARRY BRUCE PERRYPrivate First Class · November 16, 1969
- JOHN PELL RACKHAUSLance Corporal · November 16, 1969
- DARYL JAMES RUPKEPrivate First Class · November 16, 1969
Same unit, same day
- LARRY DANIEL HOLLOWAYPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 16W, Line 84
From Broken Arrow
- WALTER CURTIS BLACK JRCorporal · December 30, 1968
- JAMES WILLIAM PENDERGRASSCorporal · February 21, 1969
- JOHN ROBERT GAINERCorporal · July 28, 1969
- PAUL DAVID LUCASLance Corporal · September 18, 1969
- GARY KEITH BARNETTSpecialist Four · November 5, 1969
- EDGAR RUSSELL PULLIAM JRCorporal · January 11, 1970
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.