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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ronald Michael Kenny.

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RONALD MICHAEL KENNY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 14, 1947 – February 19, 1966

Service record

Ronald Michael Kenny, of Mt Airy, Maryland, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 19, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5E · Line 51

Position of Panel 5E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
March 14, 1947
Home of record
Mt Airy, Maryland (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 19, 1966
Age
18
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date February 19, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 123 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 5E, Line 51

Same unit, same day

From Mt Airy

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.