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KENNETH MARK BRYANT
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 25, 1947 – December 25, 1968
Service recordKenneth Mark Bryant, of Cold Spring, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 25, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 75
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 82 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Cold Spring, Kentucky (Campbell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 25, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date December 25, 1968; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 75
- PATRICK LEONARD WOODSFirst Lieutenant · December 24, 1968
- LOUIS ARTHUR WUEST JRPrivate First Class · December 24, 1968
- ROBERT ALAN AMSPACHERSpecialist Four · December 25, 1968
- PAUL WILLIAM BAKERSpecialist Four · December 25, 1968
From Cold Spring
- RONALD VINCENT SILBERSACKCorporal · April 20, 1966
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.