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KENNETH WAYNE SHAPLAND
Corporal · U.S. Army
March 5, 1949 – February 18, 1968
Service recordKenneth Wayne Shapland, of Saginaw, Michigan, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on February 18, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 13
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 5, 1949
- Home of record
- Saginaw, Michigan (Saginaw County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 18, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
85 names on the Wall carry the date February 18, 1968; two of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 164 of its members that month.
He died in Kien Hoa Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 13
- DANIEL R SCOTTPrivate First Class · February 18, 1968
- THOMAS LARRY SENNPrivate First Class · February 18, 1968
- KENNETH MICHAEL SHANNONCaptain · February 18, 1968
- GARRY DAYMON SHEPPARDWarrant Officer 1 · February 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD EARL DEWPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 4
- BOBBY EUGENE LEESpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 8
- JOHN ALTON NEVELSSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 11
- JOHNNIE WYLIE POTTSPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 12
From Saginaw
- BRICKIE BOWMAN JRPrivate · May 23, 1965
- PAUL HAMILTON JRSergeant · October 3, 1965
- HEZEKIAH GOSS JRSpecialist Five · January 15, 1966
- ROBERT ALLEN KOWALSKICorporal · January 25, 1966
- TERRY R MCLEANStaff Sergeant · April 2, 1966
- WILLIAM JOSEPH COXPrivate First Class · October 13, 1966
- MILES DENNIS COOPERPrivate First Class · November 19, 1966
- EDWARD EARL SCHELLPrivate First Class · February 6, 1967
- JOHN ROBERT CUSHMANSpecialist Four · March 20, 1967
- STANLEY FOSTER BARRETTPrivate First Class · April 27, 1967
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.