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KENNETH LEE CONNER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 13, 1947 – June 13, 1969
Service recordKenneth Lee Conner, of Dover, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 13, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 45
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)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- May 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Dover, Tennessee (Stewart County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 13, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date June 13, 1969; six of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 45
- HENSON FRANK WALKERSpecialist Four · June 13, 1969
- THOMAS JOHN WILKSpecialist Four · June 13, 1969
- CARLOS AVILA YOUNGPrivate First Class · June 13, 1969
- BOBBY RAY BROWNSpecialist Four · June 14, 1969
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS MILTON AARON JRSpecialist Four · Panel 22W, Line 37
- JEFF LEE FRANKLIN JRPrivate First Class · Panel 22W, Line 40
- MICHAEL KEITH LEWISStaff Sergeant · Panel 22W, Line 41
- JAMES CLIFFORD LUCEROSpecialist Four · Panel 22W, Line 42
- THOMAS EARL OWENSPrivate First Class · Panel 22W, Line 42
- ARTURO SALAZARSpecialist Four · Panel 22W, Line 43
From Dover
- STEPHEN C CRABTREEPrivate First Class · September 25, 1967
- JAMES J SHERRILLSergeant First Class · January 31, 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.