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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 Eugene Aznoe.

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KENNETH EUGENE AZNOE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 10, 1950 – April 22, 1970

Service record

Kenneth Eugene Aznoe, of Sacramento, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 22, 1970, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11W · Line 34

Position of Panel 11W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Crewman (11E)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
June 10, 1950
Home of record
Sacramento, California (Sacramento County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 22, 1970
Age
19
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Burns/Smoke Inhalation

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date April 22, 1970; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11W, Line 34

Same unit, same day

From Sacramento

All 146 names from Sacramento →

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.