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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kenneth Harold Nore.

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KENNETH HAROLD NORE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 23, 1946 – November 29, 1967

Service record

Kenneth Harold Nore, of Kansas City, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 29, 1967, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 6

Position of Panel 31E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
August 23, 1946
Home of record
Kansas City, Missouri (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 29, 1967
Age
21
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1967; nine of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 6

Same unit, same day

From Kansas City

All 150 names from Kansas City →

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.