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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Warren Earl Kindsvatter.

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WARREN EARL KINDSVATTER

Captain · U.S. Army

February 20, 1943 – October 5, 1970

Service record

Warren Earl Kindsvatter, of Cincinnati, Ohio, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on October 5, 1970, in Vinh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7W · Line 113

Position of Panel 7W 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
Captain (CPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Intelligence Staff Officer (G2,a2,s2) (9301)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
February 20, 1943
Home of record
Cincinnati, Ohio (Hamilton County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 5, 1970
Age
27
Province
Vinh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

13 names on the Wall carry the date October 5, 1970; he was the only one lost in Vinh Long Province that day. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7W, Line 113

Same unit, same day

From Cincinnati

All 226 names from Cincinnati →

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.