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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kenneth Wayne Faul.

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KENNETH WAYNE FAUL

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 2, 1946 – October 28, 1968

Service record

Kenneth Wayne Faul, of Clarksville, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 28, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 40W · Line 48

Position of Panel 40W 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
October 2, 1946
Home of record
Clarksville, Ohio (Clinton County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 28, 1968
Age
22
Province
Kien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date October 28, 1968; two of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 40W, Line 48

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.