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KURT EUGENE WARD
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 26, 1949 – July 18, 1968
Service recordKurt Eugene Ward, of Dayton, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 18, 1968, in Binh Thuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 51W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51W · Line 9
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- December 26, 1949
- Home of record
- Dayton, Ohio (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 18, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Binh Thuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date July 18, 1968; three of them were lost in Binh Thuy Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 51W, Line 9
- JOHN EDWARD SWEENEYLance Corporal · July 18, 1968
- JOHN ASHLEY TEMPLETONSecond Lieutenant · July 18, 1968
- HARRISON E WOEHNKER JRFirst Lieutenant · July 18, 1968
- DONALD EDWARD BROSIUSMaster Sergeant · July 19, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND CONRAD HANIKPrivate First Class · Panel 51W, Line 5
- ALLEN CURTIS SHELINESergeant · Panel 51W, Line 8
From Dayton
- CHARLES ROBERT SMITHLance Corporal · May 23, 1965
- JOE CALVIN PAULLance Corporal · August 19, 1965
- RICHARD DENNIS SHARPLance Corporal · October 30, 1965
- RICHARD GALE WICKLance Corporal · November 22, 1965
- DONALD MAILY SHAFER IIPrivate First Class · February 18, 1966
- HARRY DONALD HASKINSPrivate First Class · April 29, 1966
- TIMOTHY RAYPrivate First Class · May 8, 1966
- ROGER MICHAEL MATHEWSONSergeant · May 11, 1966
- MICHAEL ROBERT POPPAWPrivate First Class · May 12, 1966
- DOUGLAS HUGH KNOTTPrivate First Class · July 19, 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.