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LESTER STEPHEN KINARD
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 30, 1948 – January 29, 1968
Service recordLester Stephen Kinard, of Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 29, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 60
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 30, 1948
- Home of record
- Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania (York County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 29, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date January 29, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 169 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 60
- KENNETH JOSEPH GRASSLPrivate First Class · January 29, 1968
- THELBERT ALLYSON JAMESPrivate First Class · January 29, 1968
- VICTOR JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · January 29, 1968
- ROY DELL MCGEEPrivate First Class · January 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD EMERSON DENNY JRPrivate First Class · Panel 35E, Line 59
- JIMMIE CHARLES MARRIONPrivate First Class · Panel 35E, Line 61
- ESTEBAN PENA ESTRADACorporal · Panel 35E, Line 62
- ROBERT WILLIAM NEHERSpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 62
- HAROLD HUGH WELCHCorporal · Panel 35E, Line 64
From Seven Valleys
- TYRONE GARY THOMANSpecialist Four · March 12, 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.