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KENNETH RAY GAY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
November 25, 1941 – January 24, 1968
Service recordKenneth Ray Gay, of Lexington, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on January 24, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 21
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Personnel Specialist (71H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- November 25, 1941
- Home of record
- Lexington, Kentucky (Fayette County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 24, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date January 24, 1968; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 21
- WAYNE CECIEL CHITWOODCorporal · January 24, 1968
- JOHN ROBERT FAVORPrivate First Class · January 24, 1968
- KENNETH VIRGIL GOODMANPrivate First Class · January 24, 1968
- JON LESLIE GRIMMETTSergeant · January 24, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DAMAS HERNANDEZ-FELICIANOPrivate First Class · Panel 35E, Line 22
From Lexington
- WILLIAM KATHMAN BARRETTFirst Lieutenant · October 21, 1965
- DAYMON DONALD HORNStaff Sergeant · December 6, 1965
- VERNON EDWARD HOLLANDLance Corporal · December 18, 1965
- CHARLES EDWARD STRADERStaff Sergeant · February 4, 1966
- JERRY LANG ONANPrivate First Class · May 4, 1966
- WILLIAM LOUIS MADISONChief Master Sergeant · May 15, 1966
- WILLIAM KEEN STOLL JRPrivate First Class · June 18, 1966
- JOHN WILLIAM HAMMSpecialist Four · July 7, 1966
- WILLIAM FRANCIS HOGAN JRCorporal · March 14, 1967
- WILLIAM P CENTERS JRSpecialist Five · May 21, 1967
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.