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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 Kenney Dean Chappell.

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KENNEY DEAN CHAPPELL

Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 13, 1947 – October 23, 1967

Service record

Kenney Dean Chappell, of Shreveport, Louisiana, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 23, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28E · Line 53

Position of Panel 28E 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
July 13, 1947
Home of record
Shreveport, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
October 23, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date October 23, 1967; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28E, Line 53

Same unit, same day

From Shreveport

All 54 names from Shreveport →

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.