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MELTON LAVONE KIDD
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
November 26, 1945 – June 9, 1968
Service recordMelton Lavone Kidd, of Chesapeake, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 9, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 10
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- November 26, 1945
- Home of record
- Chesapeake, Virginia (Chesapeake (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 9, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date June 9, 1968; 32 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 10
- JOHN DAVID STENHOUSELance Corporal · June 7, 1968
- RICHARD JOSEPH IANIERILance Corporal · June 9, 1968
- DONNIE HUGH LITTLECorporal · June 9, 1968
- JAMES DOUGLAS LOCKERSergeant · June 9, 1968
- BARRY LOWEPrivate First Class · June 9, 1968
From Chesapeake
- WILLIAM H COBURNPrivate First Class · February 23, 1966
- KERMIT ANTHONY RAYLance Corporal · April 26, 1967
- FRED VINCENT LEELance Corporal · June 1, 1967
- DEWEY ALLEN MIDGETTPrivate · November 25, 1967
- LOUIS FRANKLIN STAPLESLance Corporal · February 5, 1968
- JAMES GUERDON SIGNETTSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- ELBERT ELISAH COX JRSergeant · May 1, 1968
- JOHN HENERY DIXONSpecialist Four · May 16, 1968
- HENRY LARRY GOFFSergeant · May 25, 1968
- CLEM SPENCER LOWERY JRSergeant · May 30, 1968
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.