U.S. Air Force · United States 
Kenneth Dillard Krehbiel
Captain Kenneth Dillard Krehbiel served in the U.S. Air Force. Kenneth served in the Vietnam War and the Cold War. Kenneth was 28 years old.
Kenneth Dillard Krehbiel was born on January 20, 1939, in McPherson, Kansas, the son of Kenneth Ruth Krehbiel and Dorothy Belle “Teddy” Dunseth Krehbiel. A captain in the U.S. Air Force, he flew as a forward air controller, call sign “Rash,” with the 21st Tactical Air Support Squadron, 504th Tactical Air Support Group, Seventh Air Force. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement in aerial flight over Southeast Asia on August 9, 1967. On October 19, 1967, his O-1E Bird Dog, serial 56-2601, crashed after an engine failure in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam; he died of his injuries in hospital at Nha Trang, aged 28. He was brought home and laid to rest in McPherson Cemetery. His name is on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Panel 28E, Line 40.
Awards & Decorations
5
For valor
Distinguished Flying Cross posthumous
Special Order G-2073, 23 November 1967
For service and achievement
Foreign awards
Burial Information
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