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RONALD RENE KIRKPATRICK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 25, 1948 – August 7, 1969
Service recordRonald Rene Kirkpatrick, of Ft Myers, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 7, 1969, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 108 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 108
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 25, 1948
- Home of record
- Ft Myers, Florida (Lee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 7, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date August 7, 1969; three of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 108
- THOMAS LEE CLARK JRPrivate First Class · August 7, 1969
- EARNEST HEARD JRSpecialist Four · August 7, 1969
- LAWRENCE HENRY JACKSONPrivate First Class · August 7, 1969
- JOHN JOSEPH MASLAKSpecialist Four · August 7, 1969
From Ft Myers
- ERNEST M SCHULTZ IIISpecialist Five · February 10, 1965
- CHRISTOPHER J DEAN JRPrivate First Class · May 11, 1966
- ROY DONALD HUTTINGSergeant · September 25, 1966
- GEORGE DANIEL THEISENPrivate First Class · December 13, 1966
- ROBERT FULTON HELVESTONPrivate First Class · February 4, 1967
- THOMAS LEE MCGEEPrivate First Class · March 11, 1967
- WILLIE JAMES MOOREPrivate First Class · June 8, 1967
- CLAYTON MARQUI SPAINHOWERPrivate First Class · December 6, 1967
- CULLIE WILSON BRYANTSpecialist Four · January 13, 1968
- ROBERT EUGENE WHITTENSergeant · May 8, 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.