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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 Henry Mashlykin.

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KENNETH HENRY MASHLYKIN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 18, 1949 – September 24, 1968

Service record

Kenneth Henry Mashlykin, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 24, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 42W · Line 5

Position of Panel 42W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
198 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
June 18, 1949
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 24, 1968
Age
19
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date September 24, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 42W, Line 5

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.