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KENNETH WAYNE SHAMBLIN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 11, 1950 – April 21, 1971
Service recordKenneth Wayne Shamblin, of Sissonville, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 21, 1971, in Cambodia, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 1
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- October 11, 1950
- Home of record
- Sissonville, West Virginia (Kanawha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 21, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date April 21, 1971. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
Also on Panel 3W, Line 1
- HERBERT MILLERMajor · April 21, 1971
- STANTON GERALD SARGENTCorporal · April 21, 1971
- GENERAL DEWAYNE SMITHStaff Sergeant · April 21, 1971
- CLAUDE ARTHUR WILLIAMSSpecialist Six · April 21, 1971
From Sissonville
- DONNIE LEE HACKNEYSpecialist Four · August 19, 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.