The Wall › Panel 10W › Wisconsin › Kenneth Eugene Smith
KENNETH EUGENE SMITH
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
April 24, 1948 – May 15, 1970
Service recordKenneth Eugene Smith, of Woodville, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 15, 1970, in Cambodia, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · Line 47
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Imagery Analyst (96D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 92 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- April 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Woodville, Wisconsin (St Croix County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 15, 1970
- Age
- 22
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1970. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “92 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
He died in Cambodia while the Cambodian incursion was under way. From 29 April to 30 June 1970, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces crossed into Cambodia to attack North Vietnamese base areas and supply caches; the announcement set off campus protests, including at Kent State.
Also on Panel 10W, Line 47
- ARNOLD LEE ROBBINSSergeant First Class · May 15, 1970
- JESSIE FRANKLIN SANDERSPrivate First Class · May 15, 1970
- ARLIE SPENCER JRSergeant · May 15, 1970
- JOHN RICHARD STINNSpecialist Four · May 15, 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.