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KENNETH FOSTER CHASTINE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
May 23, 1943 – February 25, 1968
Service recordKenneth Foster Chastine, of Keensburg, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 25, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 18
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineer Equipment Operator (1345)
- Born
- May 23, 1943
- Home of record
- Keensburg, Illinois (Wabash County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 25, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
96 names on the Wall carry the date February 25, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 41E, Line 18
- LESTER EUGENE CHAMBERSPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- KENNETH WILLIAM CLAIRECorporal · February 25, 1968
- RONNIE LEE CLARKCorporal · February 25, 1968
- DOYLE GREGORY CLAYPrivate First Class · February 25, 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.