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KEVIN GERRY ALDAM
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 21, 1949 – June 27, 1969
Service recordKevin Gerry Aldam, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 27, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 22
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 21, 1949
- Home of record
- Pittsfield, Massachusetts (Berkshire County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 27, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date June 27, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 22
- FREDDIE LAWS DANIELSpecialist Four · June 27, 1969
- ARTHUR RAYMOND DAVISCorporal · June 27, 1969
- CLAUDE CHARLES DENARDISPrivate First Class · June 27, 1969
- FOSTER EARL HARRISONPrivate First Class · June 27, 1969
Same unit, same day
- LARRY DEAN PLATTCorporal · Panel 21W, Line 25
- WILLIAM MICHEAL WILSONPrivate First Class · Panel 21W, Line 25
From Pittsfield
- JAMES CALVIN HENNEBERRYAirman Second Class · June 30, 1965
- GEORGE JERRY SHUFELTPrivate First Class · February 7, 1966
- DAVID CHRISTOPHER BOREYLance Corporal · May 13, 1967
- EDWARD CARL JARVISPrivate First Class · October 12, 1967
- JOHN LIONEL PRATTPrivate · March 3, 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.