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KENNETH HAROLD DRESSEL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 6, 1947 – January 25, 1968
Service recordKenneth Harold Dressel, of Watertown, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 25, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 31
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Watertown, Minnesota (Carver County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 25, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date January 25, 1968; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 169 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 31
- DAVID PAUL DODSONPrivate First Class · January 25, 1968
- CHRISTIAN FRANZ FEIT IIIHospitalman · January 25, 1968
- BRUCE JAMES FLETCHERPrivate First Class · January 25, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH FODENWarrant Officer 1 · January 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JESUS V AVILAPrivate First Class · Panel 35E, Line 29
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.