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KENNETH RANDAL PRICE
Captain · U.S. Army
June 5, 1941 – February 13, 1971
Service recordKenneth Randal Price, of Windsor, Ohio, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on February 13, 1971, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 101 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 101
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- June 5, 1941
- Home of record
- Windsor, Ohio (Ashtabula County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 13, 1971
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date February 13, 1971; he was the only one lost in Phu Yen Province that day. In February 1971, 387 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5W, Line 101
- MICHAEL DUANE ADKINSSpecialist Four · February 13, 1971
- JOSEPH VENSON MARTINSergeant First Class · February 13, 1971
- JAMES ALBERT MICHAELSergeant · February 13, 1971
- WILLIAM EARVIN PIERCELance Corporal · February 13, 1971
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH VENSON MARTINSergeant First Class · Panel 5W, Line 101
From Windsor
- STANLEY JOHN SHUMINSKISergeant · August 11, 1969
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.