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KIM RANDLE PARLIAMENT
Corporal · U.S. Army
May 17, 1948 – April 15, 1968
Service recordKim Randle Parliament, of Liberty, Indiana, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on April 15, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 7
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Liberty, Indiana (Union County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 15, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date April 15, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 50E, Line 7
- PATRICK CHASIE PATTERSONPrivate First Class · April 15, 1968
- MICHAEL PETER PAVLOCAK JRPrivate First Class · April 15, 1968
- EDWARD ANTHONY RHODEPrivate First Class · April 15, 1968
- RICHARD NORMAN RIVARDSpecialist Four · April 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ARNOLD SYLVANUS WHITECorporal · Panel 50E, Line 10
From Liberty
- RANDALL FRANK KASERPrivate First Class · August 11, 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.