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MAX DUANE KERSEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 5, 1948 – January 5, 1970
Service recordMax Duane Kersey, of Opp, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 5, 1970, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 129 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 129
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- February 5, 1948
- Home of record
- Opp, Alabama (Covington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 5, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date January 5, 1970; he was the only one lost in Long Khanh Province that day. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 129
- PATRICK HOP SUNG HUSergeant · January 5, 1970
- LARRY NESBIT LAMBPrivate First Class · January 5, 1970
- DONALD EUGENE LEWTERPrivate First Class · January 5, 1970
- MICHAEL ORSON LUNDSpecialist Four · January 5, 1970
From Opp
- JIMMY EARL DARBYPrivate First Class · July 10, 1967
- JAMES STEVEN STANLEYSpecialist Four · March 16, 1970
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.