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KENNETH EUGENE WITMER
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
May 19, 1948 – May 13, 1969
Service recordKenneth Eugene Witmer, of Millersville, Pennsylvania, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on May 13, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 114
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
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- May 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Millersville, Pennsylvania (Lancaster County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 13, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
112 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1969; seven of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 114
- MYLES DALEN WESTMANCorporal · May 13, 1969
- LYNN JAY WIESERPrivate First Class · May 13, 1969
- RAYMOND LEROY WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · May 13, 1969
- DANIEL THOMAS ABNEY JRSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
Same unit, same day
- BRUCE CARLTON BESSORCaptain · Panel 25W, Line 94
- JOHN HENRY RALPH BROOKSStaff Sergeant · Panel 25W, Line 95
- PAUL EDWARD GOONAN JRSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 100
- JEFFREY CHARLES STOWEWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 25W, Line 111
From Millersville
- ROBERT LEE WENZELSergeant · July 25, 1968
- JAMES LAWRENCE WIELERSergeant · March 7, 1971
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.