Kitchens, Perry Castellion
Army Sergeant

Perry Castellion Kitchens, age 21, from Decatur, Georgia, DeKalb county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Tuesday, November 3, 1970
Death details: On September 16, 1977, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant Perry Castellion Kitchens, missing from the Vietnam War. Sergeant Kitchens joined the U.S. Army from Georgia and was a member of the 329th Transportation Company. On November 2, 1970, he was a crew member aboard the landing craft LCU 63, on a cargo mission from Da Nang to Tan My, Vietnam. During the mission, the vessel capsized for unknown reasons, but immediate search and rescue units were unable to locate any of its crew. SGT Kitchens was killed in the incident. In November 1974, U.S. analysts received a set of unidentified remains that had been recovered in Thua Thien Province, Vietnam. In 1977, forensic analysis identified the recovered remains as those of SGT Kitchens.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounty Agency