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KENNETH LEE PERRY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 13, 1948 – September 19, 1969
Service recordKenneth Lee Perry, of Franklin, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 19, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 114
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Franklin, Ohio (Warren County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 19, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date September 19, 1969; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 114
- BERNARD JAMES HENRYPrivate First Class · September 19, 1969
- JOHN PATRICK LAMBOOYPrivate First Class · September 19, 1969
- LARRY GUNNELL PINSONLance Corporal · September 19, 1969
- JOHN ARTHUR REEDFirst Lieutenant · September 19, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MONTY JAY EICHHORNPrivate First Class · Panel 18W, Line 113
From Franklin
- STEVE GRANT YOUNGSpecialist Four · May 6, 1966
- RICKEY LEAROY GILLUMPrivate First Class · January 18, 1967
- JONATHAN FAYE LOWMANPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- EDGAR BAKER JRPrivate First Class · March 21, 1968
- TERRY LEE HINKLECorporal · November 24, 1968
- CHARLES KEITH DAYSpecialist Four · January 11, 1969
- PAUL EDWARD GOONAN JRSpecialist Four · May 13, 1969
- FLOYD EDWARD BARBERSpecialist Four · May 28, 1969
- DAVID RUSSELL BRANSONSergeant · November 4, 1969
- DAVID WALTER WOODSSergeant · November 3, 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.