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DAVID BUTLER KISER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 10, 1931 – June 8, 1966
Service recordDavid Butler Kiser, of North Matewan, West Virginia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 8, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 21
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- April 10, 1931
- Home of record
- North Matewan, West Virginia (Mingo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 8, 1966
- Age
- 35
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date June 8, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8E, Line 21
- JORGE L FERNANDEZSpecialist Four · June 8, 1966
- ROCKFORD WAYNE GODDARDSpecialist Four · June 8, 1966
- PHILLIP HEASE HOLMES JRMajor · June 8, 1966
- ANTON LEONARD MUHMSergeant · June 8, 1966
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.