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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 Lee Gill.

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KENNETH LEE GILL

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 4, 1947 – May 29, 1970

Service record

Kenneth Lee Gill, of Triadelphia, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 29, 1970, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 117 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 10W · Line 117

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
198 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
May 4, 1947
Home of record
Triadelphia, West Virginia (Ohio County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 29, 1970
Age
23
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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What was happening

13 names on the Wall carry the date May 29, 1970; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 37 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 10W, Line 117

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.