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KENNETH JAMES FARRELL
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
April 24, 1944 – January 4, 1968
Service recordKenneth James Farrell, of Little Neck, New York, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 4, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 35
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- April 24, 1944
- Home of record
- Little Neck, New York (Queens County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 4, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date January 4, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 97 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33E, Line 35
- ROBERT LOUIS CLINEPrivate First Class · January 4, 1968
- HENRY CONRAD COUSINEAUSeaman Recruit · January 4, 1968
- GREGORY ELLIS COXSpecialist Four · January 4, 1968
- GEORGE FRANCIS FLANAGANStaff Sergeant · January 4, 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.