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DONALD LYNN KELLY
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
November 17, 1940 – May 19, 1969
Service recordDonald Lynn Kelly, of Hartford, Alabama, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 19, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 55
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- November 17, 1940
- Home of record
- Hartford, Alabama (Geneva County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 19, 1969
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date May 19, 1969; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 55
- TIMOTHY KIM LECLAIRFirst Lieutenant · May 19, 1969
- EDDIE MONTGOMERY JRCorporal · May 19, 1969
- KENNETH ALAN PAVANSergeant · May 19, 1969
- THOMAS CHARLES TREIBLECorporal · May 19, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES DON BUCHANANSpecialist Five · Panel 24W, Line 52
- RICHARD CARBONESpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 52
From Hartford
- JEFFERSON DAVIS HALLSergeant · April 9, 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.