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WILLIE CLYDE KUYKENDALL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 4, 1949 – August 18, 1971
Service recordWillie Clyde Kuykendall, of Batesville, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 18, 1971, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 133 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 133
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 4, 1949
- Home of record
- Batesville, Mississippi (Panola County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 18, 1971
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
Three names on the Wall carry the date August 18, 1971; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1971, 116 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 3W, Line 133
- TIMOTHY JAMES LYNCHSpecialist Four · August 16, 1971
- ANTONIO TONY TOSAPrivate · August 17, 1971
- ARTHUR GERALD DENTONSergeant First Class · August 18, 1971
- JOHN LESLIE BRANNONPrivate First Class · August 19, 1971
Same unit, same day
- MELVIN LEE WEAKSPrivate First Class · Panel 3W, Line 134
From Batesville
- HAYZELL CALVIN TURNERSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- JOHNNY LEE ROBINSONCorporal · December 28, 1967
- CLARENCE JONESSpecialist Four · May 30, 1968
- CHARLES WATSON WILLINGHAMSpecialist Four · October 5, 1968
- JIMMIE DAVID HINTONSpecialist Five · September 7, 1971
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.