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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 Coe.

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KENNETH EUGENE COE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 15, 1945 – July 2, 1967

Service record

Kenneth Eugene Coe, of Anthony, Kansas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 2, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 99

Position of Panel 22E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
C CO 39 ENG BN 1 CAV DIV
Born
December 15, 1945
Home of record
Anthony, Kansas (Harper County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 2, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

127 names on the Wall carry the date July 2, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 99

From Anthony

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.