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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kenneth Russell Dau.

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KENNETH RUSSELL DAU

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 28, 1947 – December 15, 1967

Service record

Kenneth Russell Dau, of Warren, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 15, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 31E · Line 97

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
December 28, 1947
Home of record
Warren, Minnesota (Marshall County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 15, 1967
Age
19
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date December 15, 1967; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 31E, Line 97

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.