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KYLE WALDROP
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 10, 1931 – March 12, 1969
Service recordKyle Waldrop, of High Bridge, Kentucky, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 12, 1969, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 26
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- February 10, 1931
- Home of record
- High Bridge, Kentucky (Jessamine County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1969
- Age
- 38
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kien Tuong Province that day. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 26
- CHARLES JOSEPH TURRIPrivate First Class · March 12, 1969
- WILLIAM TIMOTHY WHEELERFirst Lieutenant · March 12, 1969
- GORDON GLENN WHITELance Corporal · March 12, 1969
- JERRY OWEN YOUNGPrivate First Class · March 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- FRANKLIN A JOHNSONStaff Sergeant · Panel 29W, Line 20
- NORMAN SHELDON SALIMANCaptain · Panel 29W, Line 20
- WILLIAM TIMOTHY WHEELERFirst Lieutenant · Panel 29W, Line 26
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.