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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Patrick Benjamin Kempker.

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PATRICK BENJAMIN KEMPKER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

April 6, 1948 – June 28, 1969

Service record

Patrick Benjamin Kempker, of Eugene, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 28, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 21W · Line 28

Position of Panel 21W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Atomic Demolition Munitions Specialist (12E)
Unit (as recorded)
A CO 14 ENG BN 45 ENG GRP
Born
April 6, 1948
Home of record
Eugene, Missouri (Cole County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 28, 1969
Age
21
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

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What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date June 28, 1969; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 21W, Line 28

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.