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KENNETH WAYNE BRENWALL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 2, 1944 – March 22, 1967
Service recordKenneth Wayne Brenwall, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 17
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- General Supply Specialist (76K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- August 2, 1944
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1967; eight of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 120 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 17
- JERRY LEE BELLLance Corporal · March 22, 1967
- JAMES ANDREW CUNNINGHAMPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- BLAIR EDWARD DENNISPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- CHARLES MAC DOUGLASStaff Sergeant · March 22, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ANDREW HORVATHSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 20
- CALVIN DWIGHT MABERRYPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 21
- RICHARD PATTERSONWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 17E, Line 22
- PAUL EUGENE REAMSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 23
- GEORGE BERNARD RUSNAKCaptain · Panel 17E, Line 24
From Milwaukee
- TOM JOSEPH CRESSLieutenant · January 6, 1961
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 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.