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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kinneth Glenn Edwards.

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KINNETH GLENN EDWARDS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 8, 1947 – November 21, 1967

Service record

Kinneth Glenn Edwards, of Wheeler, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 21, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 30E · Line 55

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
A CO 70 ENG BN USARV
Born
November 8, 1947
Home of record
Wheeler, Texas (Wheeler County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 21, 1967
Age
20
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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43 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1967; three of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 30E, Line 55

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.