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WAYNE LEE KENT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 30, 1948 – December 5, 1970
Service recordWayne Lee Kent, of Rockmart, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 5, 1970, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 108 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · 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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- November 30, 1948
- Home of record
- Rockmart, Georgia (Polk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 5, 1970
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date December 5, 1970; two of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 108
- DAVID JOHN SCHMERBECKColonel · October 2, 1970
- SAI GIN LEWPrivate First Class · December 5, 1970
- RANDY DAVID RAYPrivate First Class · December 5, 1970
- BOBBY LEE ROBERTSONSpecialist Four · December 5, 1970
- BRUCE WAYNE SPRINGSergeant · December 5, 1970
Same unit, same day
- SAI GIN LEWPrivate First Class · Panel 6W, Line 108
From Rockmart
- THOMAS LEROY FORBESMaster Sergeant · September 12, 1967
- ANTHONY ODELL STRINGERPetty Officer Third Class · March 1, 1968
- GROVER LYNN SUITCorporal · September 8, 1968
- JAMES RANDALL COPELANDCorporal · January 25, 1969
- CLARENCE EUGENE HARPER JRSpecialist Five · December 29, 1969
- HOMER VIRGIL LEEStaff Sergeant · May 31, 1970
- GUY LAMAR MEARS JRSpecialist Four · October 17, 1970
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.