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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 John Dell.

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KENNETH JOHN DELL

Sergeant · U.S. Army

October 30, 1947 – November 5, 1968

Service record

Kenneth John Dell, of East Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 5, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 39W · Line 21

Position of Panel 39W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
October 30, 1947
Home of record
East Vandergrift, Pennsylvania (Westmoreland County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 5, 1968
Age
21
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date November 5, 1968; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 39W, Line 21

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.