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DELVIN LEE KOHLER
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
July 19, 1945 – October 2, 1969
Service recordDelvin Lee Kohler, of Kersey, Colorado, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 2, 1969, in North Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 28
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Structural Mech (Structures) (AMS)
- Unit (as recorded)
- FITRON 142 USS CONSTELLATION CVA 64
- Born
- July 19, 1945
- Home of record
- Kersey, Colorado (Weld County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 2, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date October 2, 1969. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “FITRON 142 USS CONSTELLATION CVA 64”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in North Vietnam, outside South Vietnam — most often the sign of an air crew lost over the North or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 17W, Line 28
- RONALD EDWIN HAGSTROMSpecialist Four · October 2, 1969
- RAYFORD JEROME HILLPetty Officer Third Class · October 2, 1969
- EDISON DENNIS HULLPrivate First Class · October 2, 1969
- RONALD WAYNE MONTGOMERYPetty Officer Second Class · October 2, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD WILLIAM BELLPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 17W, Line 24
- HOWARD MARK KOSLOSKYAirman · Panel 17W, Line 30
- KENNETH MORTON PRENTICEPetty Officer Second Class · Panel 17W, Line 31
From Kersey
- GERALD OTIS BAKERSpecialist Four · January 14, 1969
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.