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KENNETH LEE WITT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 5, 1943 – November 16, 1967
Service recordKenneth Lee Witt, of Brainerd, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 16, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 6
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
- February 5, 1943
- Home of record
- Brainerd, Minnesota (Crow Wing County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 16, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date November 16, 1967; five of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 6
- GLENN ROBERT WYLIESergeant · November 16, 1967
- WILLIAM CHARLES BULMANSpecialist Four · November 17, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD CAPPELLILieutenant Colonel · November 17, 1967
- EDWARD JOSEPH MURPHY JRMajor · November 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT AUSTINSergeant · Panel 29E, Line 103
- RAYMOND PRATER COXCorporal · Panel 30E, Line 1
- JERALD WAYNE KEMPPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 3
- PATRICK JEROME LONGSergeant · Panel 30E, Line 4
From Brainerd
- RICHARD ALFRED UNGERECHTCorporal · May 19, 1966
- ARTHUR JOSEPH TURNERCorporal · February 27, 1967
- JERRY RAY BEEBEPrivate First Class · July 6, 1967
- DANIEL JOSEPH MURPHYPetty Officer Third Class · August 30, 1968
- JAMES JAY HOCHSTETTERSpecialist Four · June 23, 1969
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.