The Wall › Panel 16E › Missouri › Kenneth Eugene Dougherty
KENNETH EUGENE DOUGHERTY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 29, 1946 – March 15, 1967
Service recordKenneth Eugene Dougherty, of Aurora, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 15, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 83
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 29, 1946
- Home of record
- Aurora, Missouri (Lawrence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 15, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date March 15, 1967; three of them were lost in Long An Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 83
- STEVEN RICHARD WITHERSPrivate First Class · March 14, 1967
- DONNIE RAY BEASLEYSpecialist Four · March 15, 1967
- ROBERT VICTOR CRAINSergeant First Class · March 15, 1967
- DAVID LEROY PARISHSpecialist Four · March 15, 1967
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS M OLINSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 85
From Aurora
- LARRY LEE PHELPSPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- ROY ALAN WINTERSpecialist Four · June 11, 1968
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.