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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 Julian Cymbalski.

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KENNETH JULIAN CYMBALSKI

Corporal · U.S. Army

October 31, 1947 – July 10, 1969

Service record

Kenneth Julian Cymbalski, of Rockville, Maryland, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on July 10, 1969, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 92

Position of Panel 21W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
October 31, 1947
Home of record
Rockville, Maryland (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 10, 1969
Age
21
Province
Binh Thuan
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date July 10, 1969; he was the only one lost in Binh Thuan Province that day. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 92

Same unit, same day

From Rockville

All 22 names from Rockville →

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.