PFC Ronald Kenny, 18, Binh Dinh province Feb. 19, 1966
This Memorial Day we remember the service and sacrifice of a
fallen son of Carroll, Ronald M. Kenny
My God, we were so young…
My Memorial Day column this Sunday in the Carroll County section
of the Baltimore Sun, http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/,
is Ron Kenny, a 1965 graduate from Robert Moton High School and the first son
of Carroll to be killed in Vietnam… http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2013/05/eagle-archive-explorecarrollcom-pfc.html
In past Carroll Eagle Archives columns we have shared the
stories of some of the eighteen fallen heroes from the Vietnam War who faces
are etched in the black granite memorial in the Carroll County Vietnam Memorial
Park on Willis Street.
The stories of Frederick John Magsamen, Christopher Jesse
Miller, Jr., Stanley Groomes, Joseph William Blickenstaff, Herbert Eugene
Mulkey, Jr., James Norman Byers and Sherman E. Flanagan, Jr., have been told.
Very little has been written about Private First Class (PFC)
Kenny. In my research I came across a You Tube, “An Khe, Vietnam; “Films of 1st
Cavalry Air Mobile at An Khe, Vietnam, filmed between December 1965 and January
1966…” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD81o3yYwV0
“Films of 1st Cavalry (Air Mobile) at An Khe, Vietnam,
filmed between December 1965 and January 1966. Films were done as part of a
briefing for the Army leadership.”
Kenny had entered the Army following graduation. In November
1965 he was stationed in central-coastal Vietnam in an area remembered for its
heavy combat and high American casualties at the time.
Kenny was deployed with C Company, 1st Battalion, 5th
Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division; which can trace its roots as far back
as 1855, when it was organized and deployed in Texas in the Native American
Plains Wars. The 5th Calvary regiment participated in twelve campaigns in Vietnam.
Kenny was killed in action in the ‘Iron Triangle’ region of
Binh Dinh province, in Vietnam Feb. 19, 1966, along with Sgt. Elzie Jefferson
Collins, Jr., and Sgt. Freddie Wallace Green. This was soon after the Battle of
Bong Son – Operation Irving, January 28 to February 12, 1966.
Bong Son was essentially the second major battle of the war,
not that long after the 5th Cavalry had been engaged in the Battle of Ia Drang,
November 14-18, 1965, also in Binh Dinh. Many know Binh Dinh as where An Khe
and Camp Radcliff were located.
The area known as the Iron Triangle was a heavily fortified
position about 12-miles below Bong Son in the hills south and east of the Kim
Son Valley, and was defended by a combined Viet Cong (VC) – North Vietnamese
Army (NVA) force that included the Sao Vang - Yellow Star – Division, 2nd VC
Main Force Regiment, and the acclaimed NVA 22nd Regiment.
Be sure to read more this Sunday in the Carroll County section
of the Baltimore Sun, http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/
Eagle Archive www.ExploreCarroll.com: PFC Ronald Kenny, 18, Binh
Dinh province Feb. 19, 1966 by Kevin Dayhoff...
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