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RANDALL CLAIBORNE KNISELY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 23, 1949 – October 18, 1970
Service recordRandall Claiborne Knisely, of Roanoke, Virginia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 18, 1970, in Kien Giang Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 7
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- April 23, 1949
- Home of record
- Roanoke, Virginia (Roanoke (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 18, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kien Giang
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date October 18, 1970; he was the only one lost in Kien Giang Province that day. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 6W, Line 7
- WILLIAM JOSEPH CAHILLWarrant Officer 1 · October 18, 1970
- LEO ALFRED COLEMANSpecialist Five · October 18, 1970
- SIDNEY ALLEN KURZSergeant · October 18, 1970
- GREGORY MITCHELL KUTKOWSKIWarrant Officer 1 · October 18, 1970
From Roanoke
- LAWRENCE EARL HACKLEYCaptain · July 18, 1963
- MARSHALL JOSEPH ANGELLSpecialist Five · December 12, 1963
- LUTHER WILLIAM BURTONSergeant · November 1, 1965
- CLYDE RUSSEL HERMANSpecialist Four · November 6, 1965
- JOSEPH WHELTON BROWN IIICorporal · April 13, 1966
- JOHN ALPHONZO BROWNStaff Sergeant · May 4, 1966
- JAMES R MCILWEEPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- PAUL MARTIN REEDCorporal · August 23, 1966
- JOHN TYLER LOGANSergeant · September 30, 1966
- JOHNNY WAYNE WRIGHTSpecialist Four · October 24, 1966
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.