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ALAN ARTHUR KETTNER
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
August 22, 1943 – April 13, 1968
Service recordAlan Arthur Kettner, of Springfield, Minnesota, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 43
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Basic Infantry Officer (0301)
- Born
- August 22, 1943
- Home of record
- Springfield, Minnesota (Brown County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 13, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date April 13, 1968; 26 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 43
- ROBERT LEE DODSWORTHPetty Officer Third Class · April 13, 1968
- LARRY CHARLES HOPPERPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
- GLENNIS RAY KELLAMSStaff Sergeant · April 13, 1968
- RODNEY HOWARD KOEHNEStaff Sergeant · April 13, 1968
From Springfield
- LOREN MICHAEL SCHMITZPrivate First Class · May 12, 1967
- LARRY EDWARD KREBSSpecialist Four · January 29, 1970
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.