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KENNETH WAYNE WORTHLEY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 7, 1947 – August 26, 1969
Service recordKenneth Wayne Worthley, of Sherburn, Minnesota, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 26, 1969, in Laos, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 123 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 123
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Sherburn, Minnesota (Martin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 26, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date August 26, 1969. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 19W, Line 123
- JAMES ROBERT SHIPMANPrivate First Class · August 26, 1969
- FRANKIE STANLEYPrivate First Class · August 26, 1969
- RUSSELL ALLEN TAYLORCorporal · August 26, 1969
- GLENN ELLSWORTH TRUEXPrivate First Class · August 26, 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.