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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 Roland Jones.

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KENNETH ROLAND JONES

First Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

July 18, 1934 – April 23, 1970

Service record

Kenneth Roland Jones, of Lansdowne, Maryland, served as a First Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 23, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11W · Line 41

Position of Panel 11W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
First Sergeant (1STSGT)
Service
Regular
Born
July 18, 1934
Home of record
Lansdowne, Maryland (Baltimore County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 23, 1970
Age
35
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date April 23, 1970; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 11W, Line 41

From Lansdowne

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.