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RONALD WARREN KEMPFF
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
July 26, 1945 – August 20, 1968
Service recordRonald Warren Kempff, of New Orleans, Louisiana, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 20, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 10
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- July 26, 1945
- Home of record
- New Orleans, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 20, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date August 20, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 10
- ROBERT WALLACE LAISCorporal · August 20, 1968
- DONNIE JACKSON LAWHORNESpecialist Four · August 20, 1968
- CHARLES DAVID LINDBLOOMPetty Officer Second Class · August 20, 1968
- DONALD EUGENE LISENBYSergeant First Class · August 20, 1968
From New Orleans
- GEORGE EDWARD FLYNN IIICaptain · September 23, 1964
- HARRY EMILUS ROWLEYSpecialist Five · February 10, 1965
- EPHRON WALLACE JRSpecialist Four · October 5, 1965
- ROBERT ANGELO SOLORZANOLance Corporal · November 3, 1965
- CARL STEPHEN DANIELSPrivate First Class · November 4, 1965
- HERMAN LOUIS JEFFERSON JRSpecialist Four · November 12, 1965
- EARL DUBOIS AULLSecond Lieutenant · November 17, 1965
- LAVINE JOHN BANKSSergeant · November 17, 1965
- JOHNNY WILLIAM BOUINGTONPrivate First Class · November 25, 1965
- RONALD FRANCIS RODMajor · December 4, 1965
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.