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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kenneth Glen Konoff.

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KENNETH GLEN KONOFF

Sergeant · U.S. Army

April 24, 1946 – April 11, 1967

Service record

Kenneth Glen Konoff, of Alvordton, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 11, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 18E · Line 15

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
April 24, 1946
Home of record
Alvordton, Ohio (Williams County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 11, 1967
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

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What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.

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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.