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KENNETH LOVELACE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 21, 1943 – January 22, 1971
Service recordKenneth Lovelace, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 22, 1971, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 60
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- February 21, 1943
- Home of record
- Bellefontaine, Ohio (Logan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 22, 1971
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date January 22, 1971; seven of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In January 1971, 259 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 5W, Line 60
- RONNIE GORDON VAUGHANLance Corporal · January 21, 1971
- LARRY DAVID BEANStaff Sergeant · January 22, 1971
- FRANK ANTHONY CELANOSergeant · January 22, 1971
- ROG JOHNSONChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 22, 1971
Same unit, same day
- FRANK ANTHONY CELANOSergeant · Panel 5W, Line 60
- HUGH DANIEL OPPERMANSergeant · Panel 5W, Line 61
From Bellefontaine
- HERBERT STEPHEN BECHTELPrivate First Class · August 25, 1966
- ROGER LOUIS PARKERCorporal · January 19, 1967
- JAMES ALLEN EARICKPetty Officer Second Class · July 29, 1967
- FRANK LEE HOGEPrivate First Class · February 17, 1968
- DAVID RICHARD KELLERLance Corporal · June 5, 1968
- ROGER EUGENE SHEPHERDPrivate First Class · November 1, 1968
- JERRY LEE SOUTHARDCorporal · June 25, 1969
- JAMES ROBERT GEUYPrivate First Class · July 11, 1969
- LEWIS EUGENE HUGHES IILance Corporal · June 13, 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.