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KIT BLACKWELDER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 8, 1948 – April 22, 1967
Service recordKit Blackwelder, of Portland, Oregon, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 22, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 67
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)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 8, 1948
- Home of record
- Portland, Oregon (Multnomah County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 22, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date April 22, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 18E, Line 67
- JAMES RICHARD ADAMSSpecialist Four · April 22, 1967
- EDWARD JAMES BELLSergeant First Class · April 22, 1967
- ARNOLD LEE BROCKPrivate First Class · April 22, 1967
- LOUIS FRANCIS CERRANO JRPrivate First Class · April 22, 1967
Same unit, same day
- TIMOTHY COLEMAN PATTERSONSergeant · Panel 18E, Line 71
From Portland
- RICHARD DALE BENZELSergeant First Class · December 6, 1962
- GEORGE WILLIAM WATSONSpecialist Five · December 18, 1963
- HAROLD JAMES ROBERTS JRMaster Sergeant · June 18, 1965
- TYRRELL GORDON LOWRYCaptain · June 18, 1965
- WILLIAM JOHN LAGRANDChief Warrant Officer 2 · September 5, 1965
- LARRY ALAN LINDSEYPrivate First Class · September 6, 1965
- DONALD WALTER LOVETTSpecialist Four · December 8, 1965
- DAVID JOHN BYSTEDTLance Corporal · January 11, 1966
- RAYMOND EARL BROWNLance Corporal · January 12, 1966
- JAMES LEE GARDNERCorporal · February 2, 1966
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.