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KENNETH JOHN AINSWORTH
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
July 30, 1944 – February 2, 1968
Service recordKenneth John Ainsworth, of Harahan, Louisiana, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 2, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 64
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Flight Operations Coordinator (71P)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- July 30, 1944
- Home of record
- Harahan, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 2, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
130 names on the Wall carry the date February 2, 1968; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 64
- CHARLES LEROY ADKINSSergeant First Class · February 2, 1968
- RODNEY ARTHUR ALFANOFirst Lieutenant · February 2, 1968
- DONALD WILLIAM ALLEN JRSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- WILLIE JAMES ANGUSSergeant · February 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ALLEN CARSON HARDISONSpecialist Five · Panel 36E, Line 73
- ROBERT JAMES OATESSpecialist Five · Panel 36E, Line 80
- CARL LYNN WESTCaptain · Panel 37E, Line 3
From Harahan
- SALVADOR LOUIS MONTE JRLance Corporal · December 1, 1967
- MASON ERWIN RAGLANDPrivate First Class · April 25, 1970
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.