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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 Rae Mcguire.

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KENNETH RAE MCGUIRE

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

August 2, 1947 – September 28, 1968

Service record

Kenneth Rae Mcguire, of Rib Lake, Wisconsin, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 28, 1968, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 34W · Line 42

Position of Panel 34W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Born
August 2, 1947
Home of record
Rib Lake, Wisconsin

Casualty

Date of death
September 28, 1968
Age
21
Added to the Wall
2017

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date September 28, 1968. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 34W, Line 42

From Rib Lake

Source. This name was added to the Wall in 2017, after the 2008 Department of Defense casualty file used for most of this site was compiled. Panel, line and the details above are as listed for this name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.