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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kenneth Neil Macbeth.

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KENNETH NEIL MACBETH

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

June 18, 1944 – June 8, 1966

Service record

Kenneth Neil Macbeth, of Riga, Michigan, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 8, 1966, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 8E · Line 22

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aircraft Cryptographic Systems Technician, Ima (6422)
Born
June 18, 1944
Home of record
Riga, Michigan (Lenawee County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 8, 1966
Age
21
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

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32 names on the Wall carry the date June 8, 1966; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 8E, Line 22

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.