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KENNETH RAY BLAIR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 19, 1948 – August 12, 1968
Service recordKenneth Ray Blair, of Mableton, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 12, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 49W, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49W · Line 50
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 92 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- December 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Mableton, Georgia (Cobb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 12, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date August 12, 1968; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “92 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49W, Line 50
- JOHN APOLLO TESAUROPrivate First Class · August 11, 1968
- DONALD EUGENE AUSBORNSpecialist Four · August 12, 1968
- MERLIN HERMAN BERGANSergeant First Class · August 12, 1968
- HENRY LEE BRADSHAWSpecialist Four · August 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAN VICTOR HENRICKSONSergeant · Panel 49W, Line 54
- WILLIE WHITFIELD JRPrivate First Class · Panel 48W, Line 4
From Mableton
- LONNIE DAVID SPROUSESergeant · September 28, 1966
- ROY M MCWILLIAMSCaptain · January 20, 1967
- LEON ALTON PALMERSergeant · August 17, 1968
- DAVID EUGENE THOMASCorporal · February 25, 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.