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KENZEL MEREDITH RACEY
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
November 10, 1934 – March 18, 1969
Service recordKenzel Meredith Racey, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 18, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 73
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- November 10, 1934
- Home of record
- Martinsburg, West Virginia (Berkeley County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1969
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1969; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 73
- ROBERT LEE WILSONStaff Sergeant · March 15, 1969
- EARL CONRAD RIDER JRSergeant · March 18, 1969
- JERRY ERNEST SAMSONLance Corporal · March 18, 1969
- CLYDE EDWARD SAXONLance Corporal · March 18, 1969
- RICHARD WESLEY STITTPrivate First Class · March 18, 1969
From Martinsburg
- CHARLIE KENNETH SCATESSpecialist Four · February 20, 1966
- JAMES NEWTON LAWStaff Sergeant · May 4, 1967
- JEFFREY STEPHEN HATISONLance Corporal · July 2, 1967
- KENNETH EUGENE GREENFIELDPrivate First Class · November 22, 1967
- JAMES CLARENCE ADAMSFirst Lieutenant · November 27, 1968
- JOHN LOUIS BRUMBAUGH JRPrivate First Class · February 23, 1969
- KURT WALTER FRANZINGER JRCaptain · June 12, 1969
- KENNETH WILLIAM BOWARDPrivate First Class · January 6, 1970
- JAMES CALVIN MILLERSpecialist Four · April 1, 1970
- ROGER DALE COLEPrivate First Class · November 12, 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.