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KENNETH RAY BELSAR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 11, 1945 – January 17, 1968
Service recordKenneth Ray Belsar, of Mcclellandtown, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 17, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 65
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 11, 1945
- Home of record
- Mcclellandtown, Pennsylvania (Fayette County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 17, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date January 17, 1968; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 97 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 65
- ARTHUR DWIGHT SINGLETONPrivate First Class · January 17, 1968
- MIKE RALPH VELASCOSergeant · January 17, 1968
- ROBERT FREDERICK WILKEColonel · January 17, 1968
- CHARLES EDGAR WUERTENBERGERCaptain · January 17, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HERLEY AYER JRSergeant First Class · Panel 34E, Line 61
- WILLIE DURANTPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 62
- RONALD LEE STROOMERPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 62
- MIKE RALPH VELASCOSergeant · Panel 34E, Line 65
From Mcclellandtown
- GEORGE WYCINSKY JRPrivate First Class · September 22, 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.