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DANIEL MACARTHUR KELLETT
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
January 1, 1943 – December 8, 1966
Service recordDaniel Macarthur Kellett, of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 8, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 22
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Ranger, Infantry Unit Commander (81542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- January 1, 1943
- Home of record
- Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 8, 1966
- Age
- 23
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date December 8, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 22
- MICHAEL LEWIS HYDECaptain · December 8, 1966
- ROGER EDWARD LABONTESecond Lieutenant · December 8, 1966
- FRANKLIN JACK LUMMUSCorporal · December 8, 1966
- GARY WILLIAM SMITHLance Corporal · December 8, 1966
From Jamaica Plain
- GEORGE JOSEPH SKAPINSKYPrivate First Class · April 20, 1966
- JOHN FRANCIS CONCANNONSpecialist Four · May 4, 1966
- RICHARD D ABOLTINSpecialist Four · July 1, 1966
- DAVID CHARLES HOLDENPrivate First Class · February 28, 1967
- JOHN PHILLIPS TAILLONSergeant · March 3, 1967
- CALVIN RONALD MACKAYSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH MAGEESpecialist Four · February 25, 1968
- DANIEL J CONTESTABILESergeant · May 5, 1968
- MICHAEL PATRICK VAUGHANFirst Lieutenant · June 24, 1968
- DENNIS LEROY MORRILLPrivate First Class · March 20, 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.