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MICHAEL LOU KIDD
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 31, 1948 – May 3, 1968
Service recordMichael Lou Kidd, of Millers, Maryland, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 3, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54E · Line 26
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
- May 31, 1948
- Home of record
- Millers, Maryland (Carroll County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 3, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date May 3, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 54E, Line 26
- HERMAN JACKSONSergeant · May 3, 1968
- ROBERT PATRICK JOHNSTONSergeant · May 3, 1968
- DERVIN JOHN KEISLINGPrivate First Class · May 3, 1968
- CHARLES WILLIAM KINNEYPrivate First Class · May 3, 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.