Rank: Private First Class
Unit: B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 15-Mar-1947
Hometown: Gardena, California
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 6-Oct-1968
Incident date: 7-Nov-1968
Date of casualty: 7-Nov-1968
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Kenneth Francis Ybarra died from wounds received while driver of military vehicle on night defensive position when vehicle was hit by hostile rocket.
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XT 747 820*
Place of interment: Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, USA
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