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KILBERN DEAN BOUDRA
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 31, 1948 – May 13, 1969
Service recordKilbern Dean Boudra, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 13, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 95
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 31, 1948
- Home of record
- Pine Bluff, Arkansas (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 13, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
112 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1969; five of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 95
- JERRY CHARLES BOCKPrivate First Class · May 13, 1969
- OSCAR DAN BOYDSTONSergeant · May 13, 1969
- JOHN HENRY RALPH BROOKSStaff Sergeant · May 13, 1969
- JERRY TYRUS LEEFirst Lieutenant · May 13, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL DELANO BLEAPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 94
- JAMES HERBERT DYECorporal · Panel 25W, Line 98
- ROBERT AYERS GRUHNSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 101
- RONALD WAYNE MARRSSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 105
- JOHN EDWARD RAYSergeant First Class · Panel 25W, Line 109
From Pine Bluff
- ROBERT DANEL OWEN JRSergeant First Class · June 24, 1966
- JESSE B STRIBLINGPrivate First Class · July 16, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD HILLPrivate First Class · May 2, 1967
- ROBERT ARTHUR SAUCIERAirman Second Class · July 1, 1967
- FREDRICK LAMAR THROWERTechnical Sergeant · September 4, 1967
- JOHN CHARLES HOUSECorporal · December 15, 1967
- WILLIE CHARLES TORRENCEPrivate First Class · February 10, 1968
- EDGAR LEE SIMMONSCorporal · April 3, 1968
- LARRY GENE CALHOUNSpecialist Four · May 18, 1968
- WILLIE LORENZO MORGAN JRSpecialist Four · June 2, 1968
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.