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KENNEY MILTON ADAMS JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 22, 1948 – November 26, 1968
Service recordKenney Milton Adams JR, of Boyd, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 26, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 63
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- June 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Boyd, Texas (Wise County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 26, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date November 26, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 63
- CHARLES GERALD STANLEYSpecialist Four · November 25, 1968
- JACK MICHAEL ZAITZSpecialist Four · November 25, 1968
- RAYMOND JOSEPH AHERN JRSpecialist Four · November 26, 1968
- ROGER DEAN ALGIREPrivate First Class · November 26, 1968
From Boyd
- WILLIAM PETE BLETSCHPetty Officer Second Class · March 16, 1970
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.