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KENNETH WAYNE GRIFFIN
Corporal · U.S. Army
August 9, 1948 – December 28, 1970
Service recordKenneth Wayne Griffin, of Clarksville, Texas, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on December 28, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 13
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 9, 1948
- Home of record
- Clarksville, Texas (Red River County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 28, 1970
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Five names on the Wall carry the date December 28, 1970; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5W, Line 13
- FREDRICK KEITH BRANDTSergeant · December 28, 1970
- JAMES LEONARD SMITHCaptain · December 28, 1970
- ROGER LYNN TEETERStaff Sergeant · December 28, 1970
- ROBERT JOHN CURTISSergeant First Class · December 29, 1970
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT D ARNALLCorporal · Panel 5W, Line 12
From Clarksville
- JERRY LYNN ERVINPrivate First Class · June 8, 1969
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.