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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kevin John Joyce.

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KEVIN JOHN JOYCE

Specialist · U.S. Army

January 21, 1947 – July 15, 1968

Service record

Kevin John Joyce, of Framingham, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist in the U.S. Army. He died on July 15, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 52W · Line 34

Position of Panel 52W 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
Specialist (SPC)
Service
Regular
Born
January 21, 1947
Home of record
Framingham, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 15, 1968
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Land Mine

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date July 15, 1968. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 52W, Line 34

From Framingham

All 13 names from Framingham →

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.