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KENNETH LEON TURNER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 27, 1948 – September 24, 1967
Service recordKenneth Leon Turner, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 24, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 8
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 24, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date September 24, 1967; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 8
- ABRAHAM WOODSPrivate First Class · September 24, 1967
- RICHARD CHARLES ARCHERPetty Officer Second Class · September 25, 1967
- JOSEPH ARCHULETASpecialist Four · September 25, 1967
- CHARLES DAVID BOLDTPrivate First Class · September 25, 1967
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 1965
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.